Securing Borders: Detention and Deportation in Canada (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780774811545)

Anna Pratt takes a close look at the laws, policies, and practices of detention and deportation in Canada since the Second World War. She demonstrates that although the desire to fortify the border against risky outsiders has long been prominent in Canadian immigration penality, the degree to which concerns about security, crime, and fraud have come to govern the process is unprecedented. 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.

Author: Anna Pratt
ISBN-10: 0774811544
ISBN-13: 9780774811545
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Language: English
Published: 06/15/2005
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover