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Published: 22 April 2010
...This chapter examines the daily encounters of the state with undocumented migrants. By tracing these encounters between the Canadian government and migrants smuggled from China, the chapter illustrates the attempts by nation-states to order human migration, which may be “spontaneous” and for which...
Chapter
Published: 22 April 2010
...This chapter discusses how nation-states see undocumented migration in the form of human smuggling and work the interstitial spaces between policy and legality in which they operate. It draws connections between (1) asylum and protective mechanisms, and (2) smuggling and enforcement measures...
Chapter
Published: 22 April 2010
...This chapter examines the contingent nature of the state’s response to human smuggling. It traces the daily struggles of civil servants charged with policing borders and exposes the political nature of this work. It shows that the movements of asylum seekers or refugee claimants, despite...
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Published online: 24 August 2015
Published in print: 22 April 2010
...In July 1999, Canadian authorities intercepted four boats off the coast of British Columbia carrying nearly six hundred Chinese citizens who were being smuggled into Canada. Government officials held the migrants on a Canadian naval base, which it designated a port of entry. As one official later...