Canada’s empty promise : a critical examination of Canada’s feminist international assistance policy in relation to the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in Canada

dc.contributor.advisor Žvan Elliott, Katja
dc.contributor.author Sikina, Carly Anne
dc.date.accessioned 2020-10-13T12:48:07Z
dc.date.available 2020-10-13T12:48:07Z
dc.date.issued 2020
dc.description Second semester University: Univeristy of Ljubljana en_US
dc.description.abstract In 2017, Global Affairs Canada (GAC) passed the country’s latest foreign policy entitled, Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy (CFIAP). Individuals have praised this policy, claiming it as a “game changer in international development” (Marwah, “Canada’s New”, para. 12). However, some feminist scholars criticize the policy, arguing it “acts as a feminist fig leaf for major initiatives in other foreign policy areas (especially defense) that are not feminist” and therefore, lacks a foundational feminist framework (Brown and Swiss, “CFIAP: Game Changer or Fig Leaf”, 129). It is crucial to ask whether this new feminist foreign policy is ultimately feminist, and question the actors who define that feminism. Throughout this analysis, it is argued that Canada is failing to ensure adequate protections of vulnerable groups, both nationally and internationally. I conduct an examination of CFIAP to uncover whether the policy aligns with feminist reasoning and question if it is reflective of the situation within Canada’s national borders. There is particular focus on indigenous women and girls, following the cases of the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in Canada (MMIWG). This is done using a critical feminist lens, informed by intersectionality, feminist research ethics (FRE) and anticolonial epistemology. Keywords: Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy, Foreign Policy, Feminism, Intersectionality, Canada, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11825/1809
dc.identifier.uri http://dx.doi.org/10.25330/712
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Global Campus Europe (EMA) theses 2019/2020;
dc.subject foreign policy en_US
dc.subject women en_US
dc.subject indigenous peoples en_US
dc.subject feminism en_US
dc.subject Canada en_US
dc.title Canada’s empty promise : a critical examination of Canada’s feminist international assistance policy in relation to the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in Canada en_US
dc.type Thesis en_US
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