Bordering Citizenship in An Open and Generous Societyy: The Criminalization of Migration in Canada

Côté-Boucher, Karine

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“…Mezzadra and Neilson (2013, p. 7) outline that differential exclusion is a process where borders become tools "of inclusion[/exclusion] that select and filter people" based on "different forms" of movement. Authorized identities are those that have mobility privileges, and include business travelers, economic immigrants, and frequent flyers (Cote-Boucher, 2015). Cote-Boucher (2015) argues that in Canada bordering practices are based on xenophilic (foreign language, culture, customs) preferences.…”

Section: Borders and The Creation Of Outgroupsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Authorized identities are those that have mobility privileges, and include business travelers, economic immigrants, and frequent flyers (Cote-Boucher, 2015). Cote-Boucher (2015) argues that in Canada bordering practices are based on xenophilic (foreign language, culture, customs) preferences. These preferences can depend on factors like qualifications, family orientation, wealth or human capital, and are evident in migration policies that privilege a particular migrant group over others in admission to Canada.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Groups are consequently compared to one another. We see this imagery in mutually exclusive dichotomous narratives whereby desirable migrants are played off against "undeserving" and "bogus" refugees taking advantage of political, social and economic institutions (Cote-Boucher, 2015). Admission for the former is preferred over the latter.…”

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confidence: 99%

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A COVID-19 State of Exception and the Bordering of Canada’s Immigration System: Assessing the Uneven Impacts on Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrant Workers

Alrob

Shields

2022

SSJ

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Responses to COVID-19 have been characterized by rapid border closures that have transformed the pandemic from a crisis of health to a crisis of mobility. While Canada was quick to implement border restrictions for non-citizens like refugees and asylum seekers, exemptions were made for some migrant groups like temporary workers. The pandemic marked a departure from who is considered worthy of admission to Canada. In fact, the border through restricted and securitized measures has filtered desirable versus non-desirable migrants, creating a hierarchy among migrants within Canada’s immigration system by categorizing groups into those deserving versus non-deserving of admission. Deeply embedded societal discrimination and structural inequalities means that COVID-19 has exacerbated the vulnerabilities of migrant groups more than others. COVID-19 has placed an uneven burden on refugees who face increased border restrictions, significant health and safety risks, and limitations in accessing human rights. This paper documents the challenges, social and economic impacts, and exacerbated vulnerabilities border closures have imposed on refugees, asylum seekers and temporary migrants. We assess the many challenges that COVID-19 has created at the intersection of border studies, security resilience and human rights. We employ the conceptual frame of security resilience to critically analyse the dynamics of how and why border strategies have restricted migrant groups in times of crisis and amounted to an unjustified weakening of refugee rights. Finally, we argue that social resilience, which is rooted in rights-based strategies, not only ensures that societies are prepared to meet external shocks and disruptions, but that policy responses mitigate societal discrimination and inequalities. We highlight these strategies as effective mechanisms for reconciling both public health concerns and the rights of migrants to create more cohesive societies in times of crisis.

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Section: Borders and The Creation Of Outgroupsmentioning

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Section: Borders and The Creation Of Outgroupsmentioning

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A COVID-19 State of Exception and the Bordering of Canada’s Immigration System: Assessing the Uneven Impacts on Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrant Workers

Alrob

Shields

2022

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“…As liberal democracies have moved to prioritize economic migrants, the world has seen the proliferation and dispersal of biopolitical technologies of surveillance and control that facilitate the unfettered movement of goods while simultaneously employing highly regulated and exclusionary systems for the movement of people, asylum seekers and migrants in particular (C t - Boucher, 2015;Bell, 2006;Molnar, 2019;Walters, 2015). Neoliberal rationalities have facilitated the development of immigration policies based on rigid taxonomies of desirability that correlate human value with the potential for economi ation (Walsh, 2011).…”

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The Substance of Solidarity: What the Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic Says About the Global Refugee Regime

Perzyna¹

2021

Preprint

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The European migrant crisis of 2015 brought to light the urgent need for solidarity and responsibility-sharing in dealing with large influxes of people fleeing war, conflict and persecution. This spirit was captured in two subsequent international agreements: the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) (2018) and the Global Compact for Safe and Orderly Migration (GCM) (2018). In the midst of a very different kind of crisis - the global COVID-19 pandemic - the need for solidarity and responsibility-sharing is all the more imperative as COVID-19 has become a 'risk multiplier' for asylum seekers, compounding existing drivers. By examining how Western nation states in the global North have responded to asylum seekers during the pandemic against the backdrop of existing international refugee law, practice, and policy, this essay seeks to evaluate the normative potential of the GCR and the GCM for the entrenchment of the principle of solidarity. Employing the theoretical framework of governmentality, it argues that despite the rhetoric of responsibility-sharing, the reactions of Western nation states reflect an existing trend toward exclusionary impulses, with countries reflexively reverting to patterns of state-centric, insular protectionism. Taking these issues into consideration, the essay goes on to focus on Canada's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in light of its proximity to and relationship with the United States to illustrate how biopower is being deployed to exclude in line with neoliberal rationalities, even in a country that is usually heralded as a beacon of humanitarianism. The essay concludes with a guarded diagnosis that warns of the potential for an international protection crisis should civil society fail to challenge prevailing biopolitics. Keywords: COVID-19, Asylum Seekers, Refugees, Solidarity, Responsibility-sharing, Governmentality, Biopower, Neoliberal, Canada, United States

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“…Across the world, common developments include the following: the growth of displacement and the unprecedented size of the world refugee population; the increased reliance on temporary migration and the sophistication of immigrant selection mechanisms; and the rise of nativist social movements and official discourses about immigrant exclusion based on ethnicity and religion (e.g. Hogan & Haltinner, 2015; Winter & Previsic, 2017; Vives, 2017; Stasiulis, 2017; Helbling & Kalkum, 2017; Côté‐Boucher, 2017; Boucher & Gest, 2018). Canada, Australia and the United States, despite their geographic positions and political differences, are not exempt from these trends.…”

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A New Politics? Symposium on Dauvergne’s The New Politics and the End of Settler Societies

Paquet¹

2020

International Migration

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This Special Issue presents articles that empirically and theoretically explores the central arguments of Catherine Dauvergne's 2016 book The New Politics and the End of Settler Societies. This multidisciplinary issue comprises five research articles and a closing commentary from Catherine Dauvergne, exploring migration‐related events that have taken place since 2015. As a whole, these articles demonstrate the relevance of The New Politics and the End of Settler Societies to future comparative studies of immigration politics and policies. Contributions to this Special Issue also confirm policy trends and convergence, as argued by Dauvergne. More broadly, the selected articles illustrate the analytical and political challenges associated with imagining research and policies outside of the paradigm of settler societies.

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Bordering Citizenship in An Open and Generous Societyy: The Criminalization of Migration in Canada

Cited by 5 publications

References 27 publications

A COVID-19 State of Exception and the Bordering of Canada’s Immigration System: Assessing the Uneven Impacts on Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrant Workers

A COVID-19 State of Exception and the Bordering of Canada’s Immigration System: Assessing the Uneven Impacts on Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrant Workers

The Substance of Solidarity: What the Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic Says About the Global Refugee Regime

A New Politics? Symposium on Dauvergne’s The New Politics and the End of Settler Societies

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