Description
Book SynopsisNorth of El Norte provides an important counterpoint to the attention given to Mexican migration to the United States by examining a lesser-known migration route: that taken by contemporary Mexican migrants to Canada.
Paloma Villegas considers changing Canadian immigration policy and practice, and the implications of these changes for Mexican migrants without permanent resident status. Her analysis addresses the context in Mexico, the experience of border crossing, policies to restrict migration, and migrants'' options to achieve secure status. Villegas also provides an assessment of the barriers migrants encounter once in Canada, specifically in the labour market, in their creative pursuits, and in accessing health care.
Drawing on interviews, policy documents, media accounts, and literature from local social service organizations, North of El Norte concludes that migration and by extension migrant illegalization is assembled, produced, and negotiate
Trade Review
North of El Norte is by every measure a timely and welcome contribution to critical debates. -- Chris Alexander * Literary Review of Canada *
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: Immigration Trajectories
1 Assembling Insecuritization in Mexico
2 Transit and Encountering Borders
3 Assembling Discursive and Affective Productions of “Illegality” through Visa Restrictions
Part II: Immigration Status Trajectories
4 Navigating a Shifting and Exclusionary Refugee Determination System
5 Yearning for Secure Status
Part III: Internal and Interlocking Borders
6 Access to Health Care and Temporal Negotiations of Internal Borders
7 At the Intersection of Precarious Work and Status
8 Creative Practices amid Internal Borders
Conclusion
Appendix: Participant Information at a Glance
References, Index
