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“The Diffuse Border: Intelligence-Sharing, Control and Confinement Along Canada’s Smart Border”

Taking its cue from Deleuze’s reading of Foucault’s notion of apparatus (dispositif), this article explores the assemblage of mechanisms, institutions, discourses and practices that came to be conceptualized as a “smart border.” Through an examination of Canadian policy documents, this article analyses the smart border as a “diffuse border.” Physically extending beyond and inside its … Continue reading “The Diffuse Border: Intelligence-Sharing, Control and Confinement Along Canada’s Smart Border”