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Chet Mitchell Memorial Lecture – “Crimmigration Policies in Canada”
October 3, 2013 at 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
| Location: | Loeb Lounge, 2nd Floor, C Tower Loeb Building |
| Cost: | Free |
Registration is now CLOSED for this event.
All registrations submitted after the previously posted deadline of Friday, September 27th are subject to space limitations.
*Space is limited. A light reception will follow.
With Guest Lecturer:
Prof. Wendy Chan
Professor of Sociology
Simon Fraser University
As migration becomes synonymous with risk, many developed nations have enacted punitive policies as a strategy for managing contemporary anxieties and fears arising from the effects of globalization. A variety of control technologies have been implemented to sort, select and exclude border crossers. Migrants who violate the rules of immigration are discursively framed as criminals by politicians and the media. This paper examines the growing trend towards crimmigration in Canada – the intertwining of immigration law with criminal law. Drawing on recent policy reforms, such as Bill C-43, as examples of this trend, Chan argues that the contemporary treatment of ‘undesirable’ non-citizens is rooted in a politics of exclusion and inequality of treatment spurred on by growing suspicions and resentment towards immigrants and refugees.
Wendy Chan has published in the areas of gender and mental health, immigration, race, racialization and the justice system, and on welfare fraud and poverty in Canada. Her publications include monographs and co-edited books: Racialization, Crime and Criminal Justice in Canada (Forthcoming); Criminalizing Race, Criminalizing Poverty (2007); Women, Madness and the Law: A Feminist Reader (2005); Crimes of Colour (2002); Women, Murder and Justice (2002).
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