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In North America & Europe, states are undertaken ambitious projects to regulate borders & control the movements of people. These state practices not only serve instrumental police functions, but also reinforced differences between citizens & immigrants. This article centres on the role of State in migration control & the dilemmas, the instruments & spheres of control from a comparative perspective, analysing the U.S.-Mexico Border & the Southern European Mediterranean Border. Liberal Democratic States have sought to control population flows before, at & after the border. References. Adapted from the source document.

The objective of this paper is to analyze what has come to be called the crisis of reasonable accommodations" in Quebec, which had perhaps given way to the collective majority regarding the destiny & nature of Quebec after the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s. Although its origins are 40 some years old, this crisis emerged in 2006, when the media became interested in a series of demands made by members of minority cultural communities," which were granted in some cases, at least in terms of measures to accommodate specific religious practices. The debate's legitimacy was recognized by some political parties & found some resonance in the society at large. The Bouchard-Taylor Commission was established to consider the problem. Starting from this base of information, the authors lay out the context necessary for the study of this phenomenon, within the framework of a debate regarding the limits of social diversity in plural, liberal, & secular societies & the integration of immigrants in societies that, for a variety of reasons, do not feel completely secure with respect to their own future. Adapted from the source document.

Drawing on insights from scholarship on contentious action frames, this article examines the framing of demands for social justice for migrant farmworkers in Spain, Italy and Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus particularly on how activists in each country aligned their action frames with prevalent public discourses on the essential contribution migrants make to agricultural production, the need to guarantee "health for all," and "increased vulnerability" of migrants' lives during the global health crisis. Using these diagnostic frames, activists in the three countries called for secure legal status for all migrants. Drawing on the literature on contentious action frames, we then analyze if action frames advanced by activists during the COVID-19 pandemic "resonated" with the understanding of these issues by policymakers. We challenge an approach to understanding resonance in binary terms as either present or absent. Instead, we introduce the notion of "ambivalent resonance" to draw attention to the fact that some frames are accepted only partially or only by some policymakers but not the others, as was the case in the three countries under study. We then situate this ambivalent resonance in the context of immigration priorities and recent trends in immigration policy development in these three countries and suggest that activists can build on ambivalences to advance migrant rights to status.