Seeing like a border city: refugee politics at the borders of city and nation-state

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dc.contributor.authorYoung, Julie E. E.
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-08T19:22:31Z
dc.date.available2024-08-08T19:22:31Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionAccepted author manuscript
dc.description.abstractLocal advocacy practices in Detroit–Windsor in response to the refugee “crisis” that unfolded around the Canada–US border in early 1987 revealed a different way of working with the border in the city. They were “seeing like a border city”: working as though Detroit–Windsor were one place, even as they made use of the ways in which it remained two distinct places with different political and legal contexts. Advocates mobilized resources and expertise on both sides of the border, drawing on the sense of community offered by the city, and made use of the distinct policy frameworks, securing legal status for refugees who had been consigned to legal limbo through the policies of both states. This approach troubled the state’s logic of border control even as it refortified the boundaries of exclusion underlying it. Their work highlights the possibilities and limitations of advocacy work around an international boundary line.
dc.description.peer-reviewYes
dc.identifier.citationYoung, J. E. E. (2019). Seeing like a border city: Refugee politics at the borders of city and nation-state. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 37(3), 407-423. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654418790765
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/6846
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSage
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Geography and Environment
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Science
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Lethbridge
dc.publisher.urlhttps://doi.org/10.1177/2399654418790765
dc.subjectBorder cities
dc.subjectCanada-US border
dc.subjectDetroit-Windsor
dc.subjectRefugee policy
dc.subjectAdvocacy
dc.subjectBorder control
dc.subjectInternational boundary
dc.subject.lcshCanada--Boundaries--United States
dc.subject.lcshUnited States--Boundaries--Canada
dc.titleSeeing like a border city: refugee politics at the borders of city and nation-state
dc.typeArticle
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