Being En Route

Coutin, Susan Bibler

doi:10.1525/aa.2005.107.2.195

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“…Following Coutin, we define clandestine as 'a hidden, yet known, dimension of social reality.' 12 Human smuggling and migration routes are sustained practices, leaving visible traces in the physical, social, economic and political landscape of transit communities. As such, migrant journeys become common knowledge, despite migrants' often precarious legal status.…”

Section: Understanding Ambiguity and Clandestinitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond the Border: Clandestine Migration Journeys

2016

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Section: Understanding Ambiguity and Clandestinitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond the Border: Clandestine Migration Journeys

2016

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“…Legal geography becomes a useful guide to understanding, then, the uneven and conflicting ways the border is made and experienced. While legal geography has been useful to critique the production of many spaces and practices of space-making including zoning and bylaw enforcement (Valverde 2009), sidewalks and public spaces (Blomley 2005a;Mitchell 1995), immigration (Coutin 2005;Coleman 2005), and nationalism (Darian-Smith 1994;DarianSmith 1995), far less has been said about how law has similar effects at the border.…”

Section: Bringing Law To the Border: Legal Geographymentioning

confidence: 99%

Lines that Matter: Reading the Charter at the Canada-US Border

Labove

2017

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Border studies and critical geographies of the border have been influential at calling attention to the structures of power and limits to rights at border sites. In North America, significant research has been conducted investigating the US Department of Homeland Security and its role in the securitization of migration within the United States. In Canada, border studies has enjoyed a long history within academic discourse, but the border too often becomes simply a stand in for the US-Canada relationship. This thesis emerges from a desire to look at the border from the North, and to consider the processes and institutions undergirding border work in Canada. Specifically, I take as my To answer these questions, I consider how judges and lawyers make brackets to organize and make sense of information that then defines a field of possible action. I look to three cases at the border that have been heard by the Supreme Court of Canada since the adoption of the Charter in 1982. Each of these cases represent a constitutional question based in the Charter. I use these three cases to offer a thorough accounting of border work considering customs work at the port of entry, and deportations that occur well within Canada. I argue that far away from public scrutiny, laws are dusted off, legal acrobatics are performed in courtrooms, and judges are making decisions that quietly change how borders function and how we understand borders as a legal space. My study of these courtrooms reveals that judges and lawyers are implicated in the work of making and effectuating borders.

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“…Not surprisingly, travellers without papers are hidden in containers and trucks among commodities, or rather as commodities, to be able to cross borders. They, getting a chance to cross borders, only squeezed between boxes of merchandises, camouflaged as a 'thinglike' (Coutin 2005) en route of the global trade structure, depict the paradox of our time; global capitalism stimulates and illegalizes border crossing at the same time.…”

Section: Is It Brazilian or Immigrant?mentioning

confidence: 99%