Refugees Are (not) Welcome Here

The Paradox of Protection in Canada

Azar Masoumi (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

228 Seiten

2024
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
9780774868723 (ISBN)

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State-controlled refugee protection in Canada has gone through paradoxical developments in recent decades. While refugee rights have expanded, access to these rights has tightened. Previously unrecognized groups – such as women experiencing gender-based violence and LGBT populations – are now considered legitimate refugees. Yet, the implementation of stringent administrative measures has made it harder for refugees to secure protection. Refugees Are (Not) Welcome Here draws on archival and media sources, interviews, and organizational data to examine how refugee claims are administered within a complex and contradictory regime that maintains significant legal and bureaucratic silos. Azar Masoumi explains why state-controlled refugee protection persists despite its many failures, not only in Canada but globally. This rigorous study deftly argues that the paradoxical interplay between refugee law and claim-processing bureaucracies is symptomatic of a larger illogic: reliance on the exclusivist mechanisms of the nation-state to ensure the universal application of rights. Ultimately, this book illuminates just how this paradox has turned refugee protection into an unfulfilled promise.

Azar Masoumi is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University. She has been published in Canadian and international journals including Social and Legal Studies, Studies in Social Justice, Social Identities, Feminist Legal Studies, the Oñati Socio-Legal Series, and Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict, and World Order.

Introduction: States of Paradox, the Paradox of States

Part 1: The Early Years, 1946–92

1 Forty Years of Beginnings: The Origins of Systematic Refugee Protection in Canada

2 With Rights Came the Rightless: Bureaucracy and Restrictionism

Part 2: The Middle Trenches, 1993–2006

3 A Nice Symbolic Gesture: The Making of the Gender Guidelines

4 The Losing Game of Protection: Administrative Failure and Restrictionist Salvage

Part 3: Recent Times, 2007–17

5 Pivoting on Gay: Sexual Rights and Migration Restriction

6 Protection on Life Support: Bureaucracy, Intersectionality, and SOGIE Protection

Conclusion: For Whose Protection?

Appendixes; Notes; List of References; Index

Erscheinungsdatum	23.08.2024
Reihe/Serie	Law and Society
Zusatzinfo	3 charts/diagrams
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9780774868723 / 9780774868723
Zustand	Neuware