Detention and deportation are the two most extreme sanctions of an
immigration penality that enforces borders, polices non-citizens,
identifies those who are dangerous, diseased, deceitful, or
destitute, and refuses them entry or casts them out. As such, they
are constitutive practices that work to make-up and regulate
national borders, citizens, and populations. In addition, they play
a key role in the reconfiguration of citizenship and sovereignties
in the global context. Despite popular and political exclamations,
it is not a brand new world. The denigration of refugee claimants,
heightened and intersecting anxieties about crime, security, and
fraud, and efforts to fortify the border against risky outsiders
have been prominent features of Canadian immigration penality since
well before September 11th, 2001. Securing Borders is a close study
of the discursive formations, transformations, and technologies of
power that have surrounded the laws, policies, and practices of
detention and deportation in Canada since the Second World War.
During this period, crime categories have proliferated and merged
with a reconfigured and expanded understanding of national
security. rather disparate concerns - detention and deportation,
criminal justice, welfare, refugees, law, discretion, security, and
risk - and considers these in relation to more general transitions
from welfare to neoliberal modes of rule. Securing. Borders
explores, in the context of immigration penality, a number of
themes which cross traditional disciplinary boundaries, including:
administrative discretion, law, and liberalism; transitions from
welfare to neoliberal regimes of rule; intersections of sovereign
and governmental, risk-based, governing strategies; governing
through crime as central to contemporary public policy; and the
border as a heterogeneous and artful accomplishment that
constitutes citizens and national identities, and regulates
populations. This work is thus a rich interdisciplinary study which
promises to be of interest to scholars in a range of disciplines
including criminology, socio-legal studies, law, history,
sociology, political science, international relations, and public
administration. government representatives who work in the areas of
immigration, refugee determination, and related fields.
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