Securitization
Securitization
TSAS WP16-09: Social impacts of the securitized arrival experiences of in-Canada refugee claimants
This multi-sited research included qualitative interviews with 19 in-Canada refugee claimants declared convention refugees under the new (since Dec 1, 2012) immigration legislation. The research sought to answer two questions: – …
TSAS WP16-02: Impromptu Initiative: Security Certificates and Scale
This paper offers some background and theoretical framing as part of a larger project on the Canadian Security Certificate Initiative. Here I consider questions about different ways of thinking about – …
Redefining Security in the Middle East
This book addresses the need to redefine security in the Middle East. The contributors to the volume come from a wide variety of backgrounds, but have a common interest in – …
Bridging the Barrier: Israeli Unilateral Disengagement
The construction of the barrier separating Israel from the West Bank has become the site of one of the most heated controversies the world over, the source of virulent propaganda, – …
Israel’s Relations with Egypt and Turkey during the Arab Spring
What implications do the uprisings in the Middle East in 2010–2011 hold for Israel’s foreign relations with the two most strategically prominent states in the region, Egypt and Turkey? The – …
Securitizing’ Canadian Policing: A New Policing Paradigm for the Post 9/11 Security State?
Religious Radicalization and Securitization in Canada and Beyond
In Religious Radicalization and Securitization in Canada and Beyond, Paul Bramadat and Lorne Dawson bring together contributors from a wide range of academic disciplines to examine the challenges created by – …
Beyond Norms: the Incomplete De-securitisation of the Russian Counterterrorism Frame
This article analyses the tentative de-securitising move of the Russian counterterrorism frame under Medvedev’s presidency. (Source: Publication).
The Diffuse Border: Intelligence-Sharing, Control and Confinement along Canada’s Smart Border
Taking its cue from Deleuze’s reading of Foucault’s notion of apparatus (dispositif), this article explores the assemblage of mechanisms, institutions, discourses and practices that came to be conceptualized as a – …
Islamophobia as a Form of Governmentality: Unbearable Weightiness of the Politics of Fear
The aim of this paper is to provide a review of the contemporary literature on Islamophobia in Europe, through the lens of immigration issues, socio-economic status and civic participation of – …