Examines the impact of a group of progressive Ottawa administrators on government policy in the NWT and Yukon in the 1940s in response to increased American presence there during and after World War II. Shows how, in a little more than a decade, Ottawa shifted from a laissez-fai…
"Intelligence gathering is in a state of flux. Enabled by massive computing power, new modes of communications analysis now touch the lives of citizens around the globe - not just those conventionally thought of as suspicious or threatening. In this astute collection, leading ac…
Securing borders: detention and deportation in Canada
by Pratt, Anna
fromLaw and society
Securing borders: detention and deportation in Canada
by Pratt, Anna
fromLaw and society
"Securing Borders traces the connections between seemingly disparate concerns - detention, deportation, liberalism, law, discretion, welfare, criminal justice, refugees, security, and risk - to consider them in relation to the changing modes of Canadian governance. Scholars in a…
Pratt traces the evolution of what she terms immigration penality especially its "two most extreme and bodily sanctions," detention and deportation over the past 50 years and relates these changes to the transitions from the welfare liberal to the neoliberal regimes of governmen…
"Securing Borders traces the connections between seemingly disparate concerns - detention, deportation, liberalism, law, discretion, welfare, criminal justice, refugees, security, and risk - to consider them in relation to the changing modes of Canadian governance. Scholars in a…