Borders and Migration - (Politics and Public Policy) by Geneviève Tellier & Michael J Carpenter & Melissa Kelly & Oliver Schmidtke (Paperback)

About the Book

Despite 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.

Book Synopsis

Since 2015, the cross-border movement of migrants and refugees has reached unprecedented levels. War, persecution, destitution, and desertification impelled millions to flee their homes in central Asia, the Levant, and North Africa. The responses in the Global North varied country by country, with some opening their borders to historically large numbers of refugees and asylum seekers, while others adopted increasingly strict border policies.

The dramatic increase in global migration has triggered controversial political and scholarly debates. The governance of cross-border mobility constitutes one of the key policy conundrums of the 21st century, raising fundamental questions about human rights, state responsibility, and security. The research literatures on borders and migration have rapidly expanded to meet the increased urgency of record numbers of displaced people. Yet, border studies have conventionally paid little attention to flows of people, and migration studies have simultaneously underappreciated the changing nature of borders.

Borders and Migration: The Canadian Experience in Comparative Perspective provides new insights into how migration is affected by border governance and vice versa. Starting from the Canadian experience, and with an emphasis on refugees and irregular migrants, this multidisciplinary book explores how various levels of governance have facilitated and restricted flows of people across international borders. The book sheds light on the changing governance of migration and borders. Comparisons between Canada and other parts of the world bring into relief contemporary trends and challenges.

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About the Author

Asad G. Kiyani (Contributor)
Asad G. Kiyani is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria. His research focuses on police powers and enforcement of domestic criminal law, the criminalization of migration, and the colonial origins of international and domestic criminal law.

Birte Wassenberg (Contributor)
Birte Wassenberg is Professor in Contemporary History at Sciences Po at the University of Strasbourg. She holds a Jean Monnet Chair, is deputy director of the Franco-German Jean-Monnet Center of Excellence, and director of the Master in Border Studies, International Relations.

Can E. Mutlu (Contributor)
Can E. Mutlu is an Associate Professor of Global Politics at Acadia University. His published research deals with borders and mobility, critical approaches to security, exceptionalism, race and ethnicity.

Claude Beaupré (Contributor)
Claude Beaupre is a joint PhD candidate in Political Science (University of Victoria) and History (University of Strasbourg) with a Masters in Public and International Affairs (York University) and History (Science Po Strasbourg). She researches media depiction in migration discourse.​

Donald Galloway (Contributor)
Donald Galloway is Professor Emeritus with the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria. His research focuses on Immigration Law, Refugee Law and Citizenship Law.

Edward Boyle (Contributor)
Edward Boyle is Associate Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken), Kyoto, and editor of the Japan Review. He conducts research at the boundaries and borderland spaces of Japan, the wider Asia-Pacific, and Northeast India.

Franziska Fischer (Contributor)
Franziska Fischer is a PhD candidate at the department of Political Science at the University of Victoria, with a focus on migration and transnational social movements. She is cofounder of the Nature Days Collective in Nova Scotia.

Naomi Chi (Contributor)
Naomi Chi is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy, Hokkaido University. Her area of specialization is East Asian politics, with an emphasis on migration. She is currently the President of the Association for Borderlands Studies (ABS).

Sabine Lehr (Contributor)
Sabine Lehr manages the PSR Program at the Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria. She is Council member of the Canadian Refugee Sponsorship Agreement Holders Association and has represented Canadian NGOs at the Annual Tripartite Consultations on Resettlement

Scott D. Watson (Contributor)
Scott D. Watson is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Victoria and Chair of the Department of Political Science. He is the author of The Securitization of Humanitarian Migration (Routledge, 2009) and International Order and the Politics of Disaster (Routledge, 2020).

Solomon Wong (Contributor)
Solomon Wong is a practitioner involved in defining border solutions across governments, transportation and economic sectors. He is active on several research projects funded by the US National Academy of Sciences, including biometrics, blockchain, and new methodologies for privacy protections.

Victoria Simmons (Contributor)
Victoria Simmons holds a PhD in Sociology from Carleton University, an M.A. in Latin American Studies from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (U.N.A.M), and teaches migration, globalization, and citizenship studies at Mount Royal University in Canada.

Michael Carpenter (Editor)
Michael Carpenter has a PhD in Political Science from the University of Victoria, where he teaches and works as a Postdoc for Borders in Globalization at the Centre for Global Studies.

Melissa Kelly (Editor)
Melissa Kelly is a Research Fellow with the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration at Ryerson University. She holds a PhD in Social and Economic Geography from Uppsala University.

Oliver Schmidtke (Editor)
Oliver Schmidtke is a Professor in the Departments of Political Science and History at the University of Victoria where he also serves as the director of the Centre for Global Studies since 2012.