Borders and Migration

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 ResettlementScott 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.

• Introduction – Integrating Conceptual and Comparative Perspectives on Borders and MigrationBy Michael J. Carpenter, Melissa Kelly, Oliver SchmidtkePart 1 – Canada in ContextChapter 1 – ​​Commodifying Migrants: Borders and Canada’s Temporary Foreign WorkersBy Oliver SchmidtkeChapter 2 – The ‘Benevolent’ Status Quo State: Understanding Canada’s Participation in Global Migration GovernanceBy Scott D. WatsonChapter 3 – European Union and the Governance of its External Borders: The EU-Turkey Migration AgreementBy Can E. MutluPart 2 – Borders Above the Law: Legal Limits and LoopholesChapter 4 – De-bordering and (Re-)bordering in the EU during the 2015 Migration Crisis: The End of “Europe without Borders”?By Birte WassenbergChapter 5 – Criminalization, Safety, and the Safe Third Country AgreementBy Asad G. KiyaniChapter 6 – Border Control and Xenophobia: Joining the DotsBy Donald GallowayPart 3 – New Perspectives, Challenging Old ThinkingChapter 7 – Refugee Sponsorship: Navigating the Borders of Expansion and Restriction of the Protection RegimeBy Sabine LehrChapter 8 – Beyond Preclearance, Future Borders, Digital IDs and Privacy Management: A Technology and Policy Roadmap for Border ProcessingBy Solomon WongChapter 9 – On Bulking Up: Humanitarian Borders and State-making in MexicoBy Victoria SimmonsPart 4 – Denaturalizing and Deconstructing National Interest and Border PolicyChapter 10 – Border Control and the Migration Policy Puzzle in Japan By Edward Boyle and Naomi ChiChapter 11 – The Failure of the European Union’s Promise for Transnational Solidarity: The Challenge of the Refugee CrisisBy Franziska FischerChapter 12 – Canadian News Media Coverage and Discourse of the Refugee and Migrant Crisis in Europe, 2015-2016By Claude BeaupreConclusion – Mobility, Borders and Comparative ResearchBy Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly