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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.