{"title":"Governmental practices of regularisation: assessment of eligibility criteria in Canada's 1973 Adjustment of Status Program","authors":"David Moffette","doi":"10.1504/ijmbs.2024.10070192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijmbs.2024.10070192","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90549,"journal":{"name":"International journal of migration and border studies","volume":"8 3/4","pages":"218-239"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147895230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Complex precarity: towards a reconceptualisation of irregular migration as a reality and a policy category","authors":"Shiva S. Mohan, Anna Triandafyllidou","doi":"10.1504/ijmbs.2024.145468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijmbs.2024.145468","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the relationship between broader economic immigration policy frameworks, legal statuses and related terminologies, and the systemic production of (ir)regularity and ultimately precarity among migrants. We begin with a critical review of irregularity and how it is (re)produced between conditions of entry and stay, changing policy requirements and pathways into and out of irregular status. We then take two contrasted cases, Canada and Spain, to illustrate how their diametrically opposed economic immigration management regimes (Canada's highly regulated, proactive approach; Spain's deregulated, retroactive policy) produce similar forms of irregularised, semi-legal and precarious status for migrants. From these reflections, we propose a multi-dimensional perspective on the concept of precarity that includes social, legal and economic aspects, arguing that precarity offers a better analytical palette for understanding irregularity in migration today. Finally, we offer thoughts about the implications of complex precarity for irregular migration realities in European and North American contexts.","PeriodicalId":90549,"journal":{"name":"International journal of migration and border studies","volume":"8 3/4","pages":"202-217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147909621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"State sovereignty or international rule of law: legal and 'illegal' migration in European Union","authors":"Elspeth Guild","doi":"10.1504/ijmbs.2024.10070200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijmbs.2024.10070200","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90549,"journal":{"name":"International journal of migration and border studies","volume":"8 3/4","pages":"170-185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147881391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Border trouble: critical reflections on the Canada-US Safe Third Country Agreement Litigation","authors":"Efrat Arbel","doi":"10.1504/ijmbs.2024.145491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijmbs.2024.145491","url":null,"abstract":"The Canada-US Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) has been subject to two different legal challenges before three different Canadian courts and considered in five different judicial decisions. This notwithstanding, the litigation surrounding its legal validity is not yet conclusively determined. This article analyses all five STCA decisions to develop a critical reading of the leading decision as issued by the Supreme Court of Canada in 2023. It posits that the Supreme Court of Canada, like the appellate courts before it, erred in its understanding of the STCA. Specifically, the Court did not engage the facts on record in sufficient detail, and did not meaningfully consider how asylum seekers' positionality informs their legal experiences. As a result, the Court arrived at flawed legal findings that mischaracterise the STCA's operation and effect. The article concludes by arguing for a shift away from this approach as the STCA litigation continues.","PeriodicalId":90549,"journal":{"name":"International journal of migration and border studies","volume":"8 3/4","pages":"240-260"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147913589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Far from perfect: Iranian international students' experience of human dignity within the Canadian/Quebec immigration system","authors":"Erfaneh Razavipour","doi":"10.1504/ijmbs.2024.140113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijmbs.2024.140113","url":null,"abstract":"Every year a significant number of international students (ISs) move to Canada to pursue university education, encountering myriad challenges at the various stages of their migration. This paper explores how Iranian international graduate students experience human dignity (HD) in relation to the Canadian/Quebec immigration system (CQIS). Drawing on in-depth interviews with 24 current and former Iranian international students (IISs) (ten men and ten women IISs in Montreal, and two men and two women graduates who had left Canada), this paper adopts a conceptual framework of HD to analyse the data. Two themes emerged as key to Iranian international students' experiences with CQIS: 1) frustration with immigration rules during their studies; 2) lack of clarity regarding processing times and procedures. These themes provided empirical support for the HD framework including equality, humanity, respect, and human rights. An awareness of ISs' experiences of HD within the immigration system could strengthen the support offered to ISs in Canada. The findings also have useful implications for Canadian/Quebec Government personnel and policymakers, as well as administrators of educational institutions that seek to attract ISs.","PeriodicalId":90549,"journal":{"name":"International journal of migration and border studies","volume":"8 1/2","pages":"94-118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147919590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The sanctuary spectrum: (re)imagining the sanctuary to come through the lens of higher education","authors":"Tanya Aberman, Rebecca Murray","doi":"10.1504/ijmbs.2024.145475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijmbs.2024.145475","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90549,"journal":{"name":"International journal of migration and border studies","volume":"8 3/4","pages":"280-300"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147893967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chloe D. Rabible, Deloris V. Mullings, S. Giwa, Harish Kc, K. Karki
{"title":"Making live and letting die: Nepali migrant workers returning from India encounter the state amid the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Chloe D. Rabible, Deloris V. Mullings, S. Giwa, Harish Kc, K. Karki","doi":"10.1504/ijmbs.2023.10055135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijmbs.2023.10055135","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90549,"journal":{"name":"International journal of migration and border studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66692945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Positioning processes and dissent among Colombian migrants in Australia","authors":"Liana Mercedes Torres Casierra","doi":"10.1504/ijmbs.2023.10057684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijmbs.2023.10057684","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90549,"journal":{"name":"International journal of migration and border studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66692525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Narratives from non-citizen former youth in child welfare care fighting crimmigration and deportation","authors":"Abigail Lash Ballew, M. Mucina","doi":"10.1504/ijmbs.2023.10058305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijmbs.2023.10058305","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90549,"journal":{"name":"International journal of migration and border studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66692595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Local variations in integration policies: experiences from the perspectives of immigrants in Sweden","authors":"Jon Nyhlén, Gustav Lidén","doi":"10.1504/ijmbs.2023.10053715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijmbs.2023.10053715","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90549,"journal":{"name":"International journal of migration and border studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66692892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}