“Institutionalizing Precarious Immigration Status in Canada”

dc.contributor.authorBernhard, Judith
dc.contributor.authorBerinstein, Carolina
dc.contributor.authorGoldring, Luin
dc.date.accessioned2011-10-18T00:41:40Z
dc.date.available2011-10-18T00:41:40Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractThis paper analyzes the institutionalized production of precarious migration status in Canada. Building on recent work on the legal production of illegality and nondichotomous approaches to migratory status, we review Canadian immigration and refugee policy, and analyze pathways to loss of migratory status and the implications of less than full status for access to social services. In Canada, policies provide various avenues of authorized entry, but some entrants lose work and/or residence authorization and end up with variable forms of less-than-full immigration status. We argue that binary conceptions of migration status (legal/illegal) do not reflect this context, and advocate the use of 'precarious status' to capture variable forms of irregular status and illegality, including documented illegality. We find that elements of Canadian policy routinely generate pathways to multiple forms of precarious status, which is accompanied by precarious access to public services. Our analysis of the production of precarious status in Canada is consistent with approaches that frame citizenship and illegality as historically produced and changeable. Considering variable pathways to and forms of precarious status supports theorizing citizenship and illegality as having blurred rather than bright boundaries. Identifying differences between Canada and the US challenges binary and tripartite models of illegality, and supports conducting contextually specific and comparative work.
dc.identifier.citationLuin Goldring, Carolina Berinstein and Judith Bernhard, “Institutionalizing Precarious Immigration Status in Canada,� Citizenship Studies 13.3 (2009): 239-265.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/10022
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis
dc.rightsThis is an electronic version of an article published in Citizenship Studies [Luin Goldring, Carolina Berinstein and Judith Bernhard, “Institutionalizing Precarious Immigration Status in Canada,” Citizenship Studies 13.3 (2009): 239-265]. Citizenship Studies is available online at: www.tandfonline.com. The article is available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13621020902850643en
dc.rights.articlehttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13621020902850643en
dc.rights.journalhttp://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/ccsten
dc.rights.publisherhttp://www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/en
dc.subjectillegality; immigrants; legal status; precarious; undocumented; Canadaen
dc.title“Institutionalizing Precarious Immigration Status in Canada”en
dc.typeArticle

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