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Title:
Seeking asylum : human smuggling and bureaucracy at the border
Author:
Mountz, Alison.
ISBN:
9780816673575

9780816665372

9780816665389

9781452946405
Publication Information:
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2010.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxxiii, 209 pages) : illustrations, maps
Abstract:
In July 1999, Canadian authorities intercepted four boats off the coast of British Columbia carrying nearly six hundred Chinese citizens who were being smuggled into Canada. Government officials held the migrants on a Canadian naval base, which it designated a port of entry. As one official later recounted to the author, the Chinese migrants entered a legal limbo, treated as though they were walking through a long tunnel of bureaucracy to reach Canadian soil. The "long tunnel thesis" is the basis of Alison Mountz's wide-ranging investigation into the power of states to change the relationship between geography and law as they negotiate border crossings.
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