Migration Governance in North America

Policy, Politics, and Community

Kiran Banerjee, Craig Damian Smith

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9780228020493
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Immigration Policy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Millions of people arrive in North America each year, including highly skilled immigrants and temporary workers, refugees, and international students. Migration, border control, and asylum are ongoing flashpoints in Canadian, American, and Mexican relations, and deeply affect the domestic politics and economies of each country.

While migration has emerged as an only increasingly charged topic in public discourse, research has largely focused on North America’s lack of regional integration around mobility, often neglecting aspects of regional cooperation, hierarchy, and global engagement. Migration Governance in North America advances that conversation by examining the complex dynamics of mobilities across the continent through contemporary analysis and historical context. Situating North America within the global migration landscape, contributors from Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Europe unpack such issues as temporary labour mobility, border security, asylum governance, refugee resettlement, and the role of local actors and activists in coping with changing policies and politics.

In the wake of a series of significant and likely enduring changes across the continent this flagship volume puts policy developments and migrant organizing in conversation across borders, investigates often contentious domestic, regional, and global migration politics, and reveals how intersecting policy frameworks affect the movement of people.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title Page
• Series Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Figures and Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Half Title Page
• Continuity and Change in North American Migration Governance
• part one | politics and governance of migration in north america
• part two | north american migration governance in comparative perspective
• part three | migration norms, values, and narratives across canada, mexico, and the us
• part four | global dimensions of migrations in north america
• 12 Extraction, Dependence, Containment: Questioning Canada’s Role as Immigration and Refugee Norm Entrepreneur
• 13 Development Aid as Migration Control: Comparing Migration Management Aid in Central America and Africa
• 14 Smart Borders and the Diffusion of Travellers’ Screening Programs in North America and Europe
• 15 Repertoires of Migration Governance in Europe and North America
• Afterword Human Mobility Needs Strategic Planning: Moving Beyond Populist and Exploitative Immigration Policies
• Contributors
• Index