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"Alison Mountz traces the global chain of remote detention centers used by states of the Global North to confine migrants fleeing violence and poverty, using cruel measures that, if unchecked, will lead to the death of asylum as an ethical ideal"--

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

Often people migrate through interstitial zones and categories between state territories, policies, or designations like "immigrant" or "refugee." Where there is no formal protection or legal status, people seek, forge, and find safe haven in other ways, by other means, and by necessity. In this article, I argue that U.S. war resisters to Canada forged safe haven through broadly based social movements. I develop this argument through examination of U.S. war-resister histories, focusing on two generations: U.S. citizens who came during the U.S.-led wars in Vietnam and, more recently, Afghanistan and Iraq. Resisters and activists forged refuge through alternative paths to protection, including the creation of shelter, the pursuit of time-space trajectories that carried people away from war and militarism, the formation of social movements across the Canada-U.S. border, and legal challenges to state policies and practices. ; Souvent, les migrants se trouvent dans des zones et catégories interstitielles entre les territoires des États, les politiques publiques et les désignations comme « immigrant » ou « réfugié ». Là où il n'existe pas de protection et de statut légal formels, les gens cherchent, forgent et trouvent refuge d'autres façons, par d'autres moyens et par nécessité. Dans cet article, je soutiens que les résistants à la guerre étasuniens au Canada se sont forgé un lieu de refuge à travers de vastes mouvements sociaux. Je développe cet argument en examinant les histoires des résistants à la guerre étasuniens et je me concentre sur deux générations: les citoyens américains venus pendant les guerres menées par les États-Unis au Vietnam et, plus récemment, en Afghanistan et en Irak. Les résistants et les militants se sont forgé un refuge à travers des voies alternatives vers la protection, incluant la création de lieux d'hébergement, la poursuite de trajectoires menant les gens à s'éloigner de la guerre et du militarisme, la formation de mouvements sociaux par-delà la frontière entre le Canada et les ...

The border, once conceived of as a line on a map, is changing spatially into a form more akin to an archipelago: it is transnational, fragmented, biometric, intimate, and contracted out with proliferating spaces of confinement. The border is reconstituted and sovereign power reconfigured through the blurring of on- and offshore sites and migrations. Amid security "crises," states use geography creatively to undermine access to legal representation, human rights, and avenues to asylum. Enforcement operations reach offshore, moving the border to the locations of asylum seekers and carrying out detention in places between states. These geographic shifts of border enforcement are tied to the securitization of migration and require a degree of complicity with violence in peripheral zones. The shifting of resources offshore serves, in part, to call public attention away from other sites and social relations, rendering hypervisible enforcement practices and homogenizing discourse while "invisibilizing" the violence incurred by offshore enforcement. With intensified enforcement and detention on islands through securitization and militarization, public attention is diverted from quieter daily practices of exclusion. This essay explores paradoxical framings endemic to contemporary governance of migration: to make visible and invisible, to show some things while hiding others.