The New Politics of Immigration and the End of Settler Societies

Catherine Dauvergne is Dean of Law at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. She has published six books, including Making People Illegal (2008). As part of her pro bono legal work in migration law, Professor Dauvergne has represented the Canadian Council for Refugees before the Supreme Court of Canada. In 2012, she was named a Fellow of the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation in recognition of her contributions to public issues in Canada.

'In this book, Dauvergne critically rethinks the relationship between territorial sovereignty, international trade and human rights, arguing that the comfortable distinction between 'us and them' should be rejected in our fast-paced world.' Francois Crépeau, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants, and Oppenheimer Professor in Public International Law, McGill University, Montréal

• 1. Introduction; 2. Settler societies and the immigration imagination; Part I. The End of Settler Societies: 3. The asylum crisis; 4. Fear of fundamental Islam; 5. The end of multiculturalism; Part II. The New Politics: 6. Why economics and human rights are not enough; 7. The loss of settlement and society; 8. The close of the post-colonial; 9. Contours and consequences of a new politics; 10. Imagining immigration without a past: stories for the future.