Whose Safety Matters? Exaltation, Risky Refugees, and Canadian Safe Country Practices

This thesis seeks to examine what cultural work is done on behalf of the state by the Safe Third Country Agreement and Bill C-31’s designated country of origin policy? I will be drawing on the work of Critical Race feminists and Critical Security Studies theorists to examine the concept of safety, systems of domination, and the parameters of national belonging. I will be performing a discourses analysis of the government’s and the Canadian Council for Refugee’s year one report of the Safe Third Country Agreement. I will also be performing a discourse analysis of the Citizenship and Immigration Canada website’s discussion of designated countries of origin. I will argue that state exaltation constructs the state, refugees, and safety in a way that reifies systems of domination.

Grantor dc:publisher

Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa

Year dc:date

2013

Author dc:creator

• Field, Emily

Contributors dc:contributor

• Magnet, Shoshana

• Canada
• Designated Country of Origin
• Exaltation
• Safe Country
• Safe Third Country Agreement
• United States

Language dc:language

en

Identifier

http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-3408

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:ruor.uottawa.ca:10393/30228