Creating Human Insecurity: The National Security Focus in Canada’s Immigration System

Authors

  • Michelle Lowry York University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.21281

Keywords:

Canada, immigration system, asylum seekers, human security, intersectionality

Abstract

This paper explores the processes through which Canada’s immigration system creates human insecurity for newcomers to Canada. With a focus on the new Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and post-September 11 security measures such as the Safe Third Country Agreement, I argue that the immigration system draws on and reaffirms national security discourses. Measures designed to create national security, in turn, create human insecurity for migrants and refugees. Using a feminist approach that explores how gender, race, and class oppressions intensify experiences of in/security, this paper suggests that the new national security measures within Canada’s immigration system will likely have a disproportionate impact on classed, raced, and gendered asylum seekers.

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Published

2002-08-01

How to Cite

Lowry, M. (2002). Creating Human Insecurity: The National Security Focus in Canada’s Immigration System. Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, 21(1), 28–39. https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.21281

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