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Book SynopsisDespite a dramatic increase in migration, there has not only been too little attention to human mobility, but also not enough paid in assessing the changing nature of borders. Grounded in Canadian perspectives, this multidisciplinary volume compiles innovative work on migration and borders.
Table of ContentsIntroduction – Integrating Conceptual and Comparative Perspectives on Borders and Migration
By Michael J. Carpenter, Melissa Kelly, Oliver Schmidtke
Part 1 – Canada in Context
Chapter 1 – Commodifying Migrants: Borders and Canada’s Temporary Foreign Workers
By Oliver Schmidtke
Chapter 2 – The ‘Benevolent’ Status Quo State: Understanding Canada’s Participation in Global Migration Governance
By Scott D. Watson
Chapter 3 – European Union and the Governance of its External Borders: The EU-Turkey Migration Agreement
By Can E. Mutlu
Part 2 – Borders Above the Law: Legal Limits and Loopholes
Chapter 4 – De-bordering and (Re-)bordering in the EU during the 2015 Migration Crisis: The End of “Europe without Borders”?
By Birte Wassenberg
Chapter 5 – Criminalization, Safety, and the Safe Third Country Agreement
By Asad G. Kiyani
Chapter 6 – Border Control and Xenophobia: Joining the Dots
By Donald Galloway
Part 3 – New Perspectives, Challenging Old Thinking
Chapter 7 – Refugee Sponsorship: Navigating the Borders of Expansion and Restriction of the Protection Regime
By Sabine Lehr
Chapter 8 – Beyond Preclearance, Future Borders, Digital IDs and Privacy Management: A Technology and Policy Roadmap for Border Processing
By Solomon Wong
Chapter 9 – On Bulking Up: Humanitarian Borders and State-making in Mexico
By Victoria Simmons
Part 4 – Denaturalizing and Deconstructing National Interest and Border Policy
Chapter 10 – Border Control and the Migration Policy Puzzle in Japan
By Edward Boyle and Naomi Chi
Chapter 11 – The Failure of the European Union’s Promise for Transnational Solidarity: The Challenge of the Refugee Crisis
By Franziska Fischer
Chapter 12 – Canadian News Media Coverage and Discourse of the Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe, 2015-2016
By Claude Beaupre
Conclusion – Mobility, Borders and Comparative Research
By Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly
