Refugees Are (Not) Welcome Here

Refugees Are (Not) Welcome Here details the paradox of the simultaneous expansion and restriction of access to refugee rights in Canada.

Azar Masoumi is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University. She has been published in Canadian and international journals including Social and Legal Studies, Studies in Social Justice, Social Identities, Feminist Legal Studies, the Oñati Socio-Legal Series, and Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict, and World Order.

Focusing on the bureaucracy of refugee status determination, Refugees Are (Not) Welcome Here makes a significant and original contribution to critical refugee and migration studies. The volume will be of great benefit to Canadian audiences and beyond.

Sule Tomkinson, Department of Political Science, Université Laval:

The strength of this book is its use of archival and official material of the Canadian regime of refugee protection to show the inherent tensions in the work of state officials, and the difficulty of securing universal rights within a context of unwanted migration control. There is no other book like it.