Research Handbook on the Law and Politics of Migration

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1. Introduction to the Research Handbook on the Law and Politics of Migration: law, politics, and the spaces between
PART I FRAMING THE LAW AND POLITICS OF MIGRATION
2. The politics of migration law: interests, ideas, and institutions
3. Unsettling migration studies: Indigeneity and immigration in settler colonial states
4. Migration politics at the meso-level
5. The problem of boundaries: the Constitution and the meaning of citizenship
6. The trilemma of Canadian migrant worker policy: facilitating employer access while protecting the Canadian labour market and addressing migrant worker exploitation
PART II INSTITUTIONS AND THEIR EVOLUTION
7. Immigration enforcement: why does it matter who is in charge?
8. On public sanctuary: exploring the nature of refuge in precarious times
9. The shift towards increased citizen-driven migration in Canada
10. Closing the gap: official statistics on the migration of unaccompanied migrant children across the Mediterranean
11. Big tech and migration management
12. The power of politics: exploring the true potential of community sponsorship programmes
PART III THE POLITICS OF COURTS
13. The geopolitics of knowledge production in international migration law
14. The West and the Muslim refugee: legitimacy, legality and loss
15. Populism and the failure to acknowledge the human rights of migrants
16. Manufacturing foreigners: the law and politics of transforming citizens into migrants
PART IV EXAMINING THE SHARP END OF STATE POWER
17. Immigration detention and the production of race in the UK
18. Fast-track, accelerated, and expedited asylum procedures as a tool of exclusion
19. Immigration detention in the age of COVID-19
20. Protection, crime, and punishment: regulation at the nexus of crimmigration and refugee law
21. Privacy rights at the Canadian border: judicial assumptions and the limits of the Charter
PART V THE CHALLENGE OF INTERNATIONAL GOVERNANCE
22. Re-defining the international refugee regime: UNHCR, UNRWA, and the challenge of multigenerational protracted refugee situations
23. Knowledge controversies of global migration governance: understanding the controversy surrounding the Global Compact
24. The Global Compact for Migration as social theodicy
25. Why the Sustainable Development Goals? Examining international cooperation on migration
26. Global migration governance and migrant rights advocacy: the flexibilization of multi-stakeholder negotiations
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