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Seeking Asylum: Human Smuggling and Bureaucracy at the Border
Alison Mountz
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Description for Seeking Asylum: Human Smuggling and Bureaucracy at the Border
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 11 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFD; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 220 x 15. Weight in Grams: 290.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816665389
SKU
V9780816665389
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About Alison Mountz
Alison Mountz is associate professor of geography at Syracuse University.
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