FOREIGNERS, REFUGEES OR MINORITIES?
The constitutive and always troubling distinction between human beings in general and citizens of particular political jurisdictions in an international order has itself been disturbed in many places, not least in Europe. No doubt very large structural forces are at play in this respect, but this book examines the at least equally important role of very specific practices and policies at work at the boundaries between national jurisdictions. An initial examination of European Roma seeking refugee status in Canada opens out into a series of sharp insights into the contested meaning of security, the political framing of illegal immigration, new techniques of surveillance, and the effects of different refugee systems and forms of visa reciprocity. The precise details are crucial, and the book will be indispensable for anyone seeking to understand the emerging borders of contemporary politics, not only in Europe.
R. B. J. Walker, University of Victoria, Canada
This collection examines the situation of the EUs Roma through a novel and insightful perspective. It convincingly challenges current policy and practice that exceptionalise the Roma and deprive them of the right to free movement promised to all EU citizens.
Nando Sigona, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, UK
A remarkably driven collection of essays. An in-depth critical analysis of the whole visa and mobility regime as it is used by governments in the Global North, who seem to believe that their territorial sovereignty gives them the power to implement discriminatory policies with impunity.
Francois Crepeau, UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Canada
First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Foreigners, refugees or minorities? : rethinking people in the context of border controls and visas.
1. Romanies--Government policy--European Union countries. 2. Romanies--Government policy--Canada. 3. Romanies--Legal status, laws, etc. 4. Race discrimination. 5. Border security. 6. Visas. 7. International relations--Social aspects.
I. Bigo, Didier. II. Carrera, Sergio. III. Guild, Elspeth.
327.108991497-dc23
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Foreigners, refugees, or minorities? : rethinking people in the context of border controls and visas / [edited] by Didier Bigo, Sergio Carrera, and Elspeth Guild.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-5253-9 (hardback) 1. Romanies--Government policy--Canada--Case studies. 2. Romanies--Legal status, laws, etc.--Canada--Case studies. 3. Refugees--Government policy--Canada--Case studies. 4. Canada--Foreign relations--Czech Republic. 5. Czech Republic--Foreign relations--Canada. 6. Border security--Canada. 7. Border security--European Union countries. 8. Visas--European Union countries. I. Bigo, Didier. II. Carrera, Sergio. III. Guild, Elspeth.
DX205.F67 2012
325.71--dc23
2012022145
ISBN 9781409452539 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315582801 (ebk)