| ID: | HARP-213 |
| Title: | From Deserving Victims to ‘Masters of Confusion’: Redefining Refugees in the 1990s |
| Source: | Canadian Journal of Sociology; Spring2002, Vol. 27 Issue 2, p135, 27p |
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| Year: | 2002 |
| Pages: | 0 |
| Author(s): | Anna Pratt, Mariana Valverde |
| Keywords: | Canada, economic, social, and cultural rights, governance, human rights, movement and residency, social security, Ontario, civil and political rights, refugee, security, immigration, crime, social welfare, minority rights, liberty |
| Abstract: | Asserts that much can be gained by studying the ways that immigration, crime and social welfare intermix at the levels of both government and populist fears, constituting so-called hybrid objects that can be used to govern a number of fields. Impact of fears about welfare fraud, bogus refugees and racialized crime on the Toronto, Ontario Somali community; Analysis of the concerns of the community, with the goal of calling attention to hybrid governance; Perception that immigration policy is increasingly governed through crime. |
| Secured: | False |
| Download Article: | from_deserving_victims_to_masters_of_confusion.pdf |
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