poetry of
immigrancy and migrancy, referencing dozens of poets (including Euro-Americans) who reflect this perennial American experience.
Similar to the naturalized writers, Nova Scotian writers expressed a kind of spiritual exile or
immigrancy bound within the values of the Maritimes which can be perceived as being somewhat removed from the rest of Canada.
Thus,
immigrancy has become a metonym for globalization that reifies the nation's discrete boundaries and affirms only a single historical memory.
For more on the difference between migrancy,
immigrancy, and transmigrancy, see Linda Green Basch, Nina Glick Schiller, and Cristina Szanton Blanc, Nations Unbound (NY: Routledge, 1994).
Recent
immigrancy allows for the development of a stereotype of Canadian Muslims as being insular, poor, indifferent to Canadian society, and more concerned with life in their country of origin.
border guards turned back a young guy headed for Canada with more than a weekend's worth of luggage in tow and a i -A draft card in his wallet - or if the Canadian immigration authorities didn't grant us Landed
Immigrancy? And how to finance our escape?