CRI383H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Net.
9 Jan 2018
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Why does canada not take more refugees/displaced people? (1) where we are located physically, we are away geographically from conflict zones. More people are able to move around, yet more people are being immobilized: migration law as a formal hurdle to obtaining citizenship. Canada has built an image as welcoming of immigrants. The hurdle requires many years of residency, national language (not indigenous language), pledge to the nation etc. The law is authorizing itself to do what it says its not going to do. Membership as a privilege: citizenship notion of inclusion/welcome whereas migration notion as messy/policing/exclusion. See how the power of law as diffuse: criminal law enforces the norms that support our legal system about who is worthy and who is not. It looks like we aren"t denying people: the law is allowing the law to not look after people: this whole question of moral character is essential to the point system.
