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Mobilité(s) sous surveillance: Perspectives croisées UE – Canada

  Individual mobility is now less and less seen as an opportunity, an effect of the global market, or an ineluctable logic of human distress. In the context of the war on terrorism, mobility, however, is increasingly associated with images of danger, threat justifying such a proliferation of practices of border control and beyond, heightened … Continue reading Mobilité(s) sous surveillance: Perspectives croisées UE – Canada

Risking rights: An assessment of Canadian border security policies

In Whose Canada?: Continental Integration, Fortress North America, and the Corporate Agenda, Ricardo Grinspun, Yasmine Shamsie (eds) Questions and concerns regarding the scope and depth of Canada’s relationship with the United States loom larger than ever since 9/11. In Whose Canada?, contributors provide a comprehensive analysis of the legacy of free trade and look at … Continue reading Risking rights: An assessment of Canadian border security policies

National Security and Canadian immigration: Deconstructing the discourse of trade-offs.

This essay offers an analysis of national security provisions in immigration law before and after 9/11 as well as the “smart border” initiative. Post 9/11 developments do not represent a sea change in immigration or border policies, but merely the latest chapter in a fitful history of grand gestures of humanitarianism, political expedience and racist … Continue reading National Security and Canadian immigration: Deconstructing the discourse of trade-offs.