| ID: |
HARP-411 |
| Title: |
Creating human insecurity: the national security focus in Canada’s immigration system |
| Source: |
Refuge: Canada’s Periodical on Refugees , v.21(1) N’02 pg 28-39 |
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| Year: |
2002 |
| Pages: |
0 |
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| Keywords: |
Canada, gender equality, human rights, immigration law, movement and residency, racial discrimination, feminist, civil and political rights, refugee, security, immigration, migrants, September 11, minority rights, liberty |
| Abstract: |
This paper explores the processes through which Canada’s immigration system creates human insecurity for newcomers to Canada. With a focus on the new Immigration and Refugee Protections Act and post-September 11 security measures such as the Safe Third Country Agreement, I argue that the immigration system draws on and reaffirms national security discourses. Measures designed to create national security, in turn, create human insecurity for migrants and refugees. Using a feminist approach that explores how gender, race, and class oppressions intensify experiences of in/security, this paper suggests that the new national security measures within Canada’s immigration system will likely have a disproportionate impact on classed, raced, and gendered asylum seekers. |
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False |
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Keywords: Canada, civil and political rights, feminist, gender equality, human rights, immigration, immigration law, liberty, migrants, minority rights, movement and residency, racial discrimination/racism, refugee, security, September 11
