With over two hundred and forty million migrants in the world, including over sixty-five million forced migrants and refugees, states have turned to draconian measures to stem the flow of irregular migration, including the criminalization of migration itself. Canada, perceived as a nation of immigrants and touted as one of the most generous countries in the world today for its reception of refugees, has not been immune from these practices. This book examines crimmigration--the criminalization of migration--from national and comparative perspectives, drawing attention to the increasing use of criminal law measures, public policies, and practices that stigmatize or diminish the rights of forced migrants and refugees within a dominant public discourse that not only stereotypes and criminalizes but marginalizes forced migrants. Leading researchers, legal scholars, and practitioners provide in-depth analyses of theoretical concerns, legal and public policy dimensions, historic migration crises, and the current dynamics and future prospects of crimmigration. The editors situate each chapter within the existing migration literature and outline a way forward for the decriminalization of migration through the vigorous promotion and advancement of human rights. Building on recent legal, policy, academic, and advocacy initiatives, The Criminalization of Migration maps how the predominant trend toward the criminalization of migration in Canada and abroad can be reversed for the benefit of all, especially, those forced to migrate for the protection of their inherent human rights and dignity.--$cProvided by publisher.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 305.9/06914
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- 23
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- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
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- C75 2018eb
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- 1 electronic text (xv, 423 pages)
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- Ottawa, Ontario
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- THE CRIMINALIZATION OF MIGRATION 2
- Title 4
- Copyright 5
- Contents 6
- Foreword: Protecting the Human Rights of Migrants as Part of a Long-Term Strategic Vision on Mobility and Diversity 8
- Preface 12
- Introduction: The Criminalization of Migration: Context and Consequences 20
- PART ONE THE CRIMINALIZATION OF MIGRATION AND ITS INTENDED AND UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES 52
- 1 The (Mis-)Uses of Analogy: Constructing and Challenging Crimmigration in Canada 54
- 2 Treating the Symptom, Ignoring the Cause: Recent People-Smuggling Developments in Canada and Around the World 88
- 3 Anti-Trafficking and Exclusion: Reinforcing Canadian Boundaries through Human Rights Discourse 109
- PART TWO THE CRIMINALIZATION AND THE EXCLUSION OF REFUGEES IN CANADA AND ABROAD 134
- 4 Recent Jurisprudential Trends in the Interpretation of Complicity in Article 1F(a) Crimes 136
- 5 An Analysis of Post-Ezokola and JS Jurisprudence on Exclusion 155
- 6 The Interpretation of Exclusion 1F(b) of the 1951 Refugee Convention Internationally and in Canada 185
- PART THREE CRIMMIGRATION RESPONSES TO “MIGRATION CRISES”: HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES 208
- 7 Attrition through Enforcement and the Deportations of Syrians from Jordan and Turkey 210
- 8 Is the US Gaming Refugee Status for Central Americans? A Study of the Refugee Status Determination Process for Central American Women and Their Children 243
- 9 A Population Takes Flight: The Irish Famine Migration in Boston, Montreal, and Liverpool, and the Politics of Marginalization and Criminalization 274
- PART FOUR CRIMINALIZING REFUGEES AND OTHER FORCED MIGRANTS: CURRENT DYNAMICS, FUTURE CHALLENGES, AND PROSPECTS 298
- 10 Back to the Future: Shifts in Canadian Refugee Policy Over Four Decades 300
- 11 Scoping the Range of Initiatives for Protecting the Employment and Labour Rights of Illegalized Migrants in Canada and Abroad 330
- 12 Progress towards a Common European Asylum System? The Migration Crisis in Europe 357
- Conclusions: Beyond Context and Consequences: Countering the “Criminalization of Migration” through the Promotion of the Human Rights of Migrants 384
- Contributors 416
- Index 422
