In Search of Canadian Political Culture - UBC Press

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Humanitarianism,
Identity, and Nation
Migration Laws in Canada and Australia
Catherine Dauvergne
Securing Borders
Detention and Deportation in Canada
Anna Pratt
Refugees are on the
move around the globe.
Prosperous nations are
rapidly adjusting their
laws to crack down on the
so-called “undeserving.”
Australia and Canada have
each sought international
reputations as
humanitarian do-gooders,
especially in the area of
refugee admissions.
Catherine Dauvergne traces the connections
between the nation-building tradition of immigration
and the challenge of admitting people who do
not reflect the national interest of the twenty-first
century. She argues that in the absence of the
justice standard for admitting newcomers, liberal
nations share a humanitarian consensus about
letting in needy outsiders. This consensus constrains
and shapes migration law and policy. In a detailed
consideration of how refugees and others in need
are admitted to Australia and Canada, she links
humanitarianism and national identity to explain the
current shape of the law.
Contents
Part One: Reading Migration Laws
1 Introduction
2 The Insights of Identity
3 Nation and Migration
4 Humanitarianism and Identity
Part Two Humanitarian Admissions to Australia
and Canada
5 Constructing Others: The Refugee Process
6 Reflecting Ourselves: The Mirror of Humanitarianism
7 Identities, Rights, and Nations
8 Conclusions
Appendices
Bibliography; Index
Securing Borders
provides an excellent historical
and comparative
perspective from which
to understand thoughts
and practices that govern
Canadian borders,
and more importantly,
determine who can and
cannot become Canadian
citizens. Against that
background it reveals how
deportation and detention
in Canada, with the attendant
securitization of risk, have become the dark
side of Canadian citizenship.
– Engin F. Isin, Professor and Canada Research
Chair in Citizenship Studies, York University
Securing Borders traces the connections between
seemingly disparate concerns -- detention,
deportation, liberalism, law, discretion, welfare,
criminal justice, refugees, security, and risk -- to
consider them in relation to changing modes of
Canadian governance.
Contents
1 Overview and Orientations
2 Detention at the Celebrity Inn
3 Reframing Discretion
4 From Purity to Security
5 Floods and Frauds
6 Risky Refugees
7 Discretion, Dangerousness, and National Security
8 Criminals First
9 Risk-Smart Borders
10 Conclusion
Appendix
Notes; Bibliography; Index
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