North of El Norte

Illegalized Mexican Migrants in Canada

AvPaloma E. Villegas

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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North 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 negotiated. The comprehensive research in this book sheds light on how individuals and institutions work to illegalize migrants and on migrants' active resistance to these efforts.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-10-09
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:560 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:294
Förlag:University of British Columbia Press
ISBN:9780774863377

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Paloma E. Villegas is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at California State University, San Bernardino. Her research on the intersections of migration, citizenship, borders, race, and gender can be found in publications such as Citizenship Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Women's Studies International Forum, the Journal of Gender Studies, the Journal of Law and Society, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Refuge, and the Journal of International Migration and Integration. She is also a co-editor of Seeds of Hope: Creating a Future in the Shadows (with Tanya Aberman and Francisco Villegas).

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North of El Norte is by every measure a timely and welcome contribution to critical debates. - Chris Alexander (Literary Review of Canada)

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionPart I: Immigration Trajectories1 Assembling Insecuritization in Mexico2 Transit and Encountering Borders3 Assembling Discursive and Affective Productions of "Illegality" through Visa RestrictionsPart II: Immigration Status Trajectories4 Navigating a Shifting and Exclusionary Refugee Determination System5 Yearning for Secure StatusPart III: Internal and Interlocking Borders6 Access to Health Care and Temporal Negotiations of Internal Borders7 At the Intersection of Precarious Work and Status8 Creative Practices amid Internal BordersConclusionAppendix: Participant Information at a GlanceReferences, Index