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Preface -- Introduction: Opening up the Great Books -- 1. Spreading Disease, or Inoculating Us from Intolerance? -- 2. Following Pathways, Networks and Guides -- 3. Opening Doors, and Scaling Walls -- 4. Confronting Inhospitable Spaces, and Hostile Hosts -- 5. Encounters with Aliens, Monsters and Terrorists -- Conclusion: From Persecution to Wonderland -- Bibliography -- Index.

chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Interpreting Refugee Discourse: From Discourse Analysis to Inter-Cultural Communication -- chapter 2 Claimants from the Former Soviet Union: From European Standards to the American Dream -- chapter 3 Claimants from Israel: A Threat to the Jewish Identity? -- chapter 4 Claimants from Peru: Persecution in -- chapter 5 Claimants from Pakistan: The Constraints of State Intervention -- chapter 6 Conclusion: Theorizing the Obstacles to Female Claims.

1. Arbitrariness, discretion and non-enforcement -- 2. Translating the utterances of undocumented immigrants in a hostile discourse marketplace -- 3. "First encounters" with host country officials -- 4. Entering the system, from the arrest to formal sentencing -- 5. Incarcerations, public and private -- 6. Conclusion : deportation, and return to the host country? Or open borders?

This book is a description of the process of constructing a productive Other for the purpose of being admitted to Canada as a Convention refugee. The whole claiming procedure is analyzed with respect to two actual cases, and contextualized by reference to pertinent national and international jurisprudence. Since legal analysis is deemed insufficient for a complete understanding of the argumentative and discursive strategies involved in the claiming and "authoring" processes, the author makes constant reference to methodologies from the realm of literary studies, discourse analysis and interact

This book is a description of the process of constructing a productive Other for the purpose of being admitted to Canada as a Convention refugee. The whole claiming procedure is analyzed with respect to two actual cases, and contextualized by reference to pertinent national and international jurisprudence. Since legal analysis is deemed insufficient for a complete understanding of the argumentative and discursive strategies involved in the claiming and "authoring" processes, the author makes constant reference to methodologies from the realm of literary studies, discourse analysis and interaction theory, with special emphasis upon the works of Marc Angenot, M.M. Bakhtin, Pierre Bourdieu, Erving Goffman, Jürgen Habermas and Teun van Dijk. In so doing, he illustrates a reductive movement that inevitably occurs in legal argumentation which results in the displacement the subject from the realm of "refugee claimant" to that of claimant as "diminished Other."

This article argues that debate on Bill C-31 should, in fact, focus upon the fact that it is impossible to determine the veracity of refugee claims using current methods of adjudication, that Canadian refugee and immigration legislation is incompatible with the international conventions, declarations, and norms upon which it is said to be based, and the absurdity of restricting the free movement of peoples. Arguing that the immigration and refugee system already favours free movement for the rich and the well-connected, and that the proposed legislation will further punish those who already suffer greatly from current restrictions, the author suggests that Canada should work to assist those who desire to move by eliminating obstacles such as third-country clauses, visa restrictions, and prohibitively priced airline tickets, and that rather than penalize those who assist in people's natural desire to move around, Canadian officials should help find ways to encourage the movement of peoples on whatever grounds they themselves think appropriate. ; Cet article maintient que le débat autour du projet de loi C-31 devrait en fait être dirigé sur les questions suivantes : l'impossibilité de déterminer la véracité des demandes d'asile en utilisant les méthodes actuelles de détermination, l'incompatibilité qui existe entre, d'une part, la loi canadienne sur l'immigration et le droit d'asile et, de l'autre, les Conventions, Déclarations et normes internationales sur lesquelles elle est sensée être basée, et, par ailleurs, l'absurdité d'essayer de limiter la libre circulation des peuples. Arguant que le système de l'immigration et du droit d'asile favorise déjà la libre circulation des gens riches ayant de bonnes relations, et que la nouvelle législation va punir encore plus ceux qui souffrent déjà beaucoup sous les restrictions existantes, l'auteur suggère que le Canada devrait travailler à aider ceux qui désirent se déplacer en éliminant les obstacles tels que les clauses des pays tiers, les restrictions sur les visas et ...