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Social Science Emigration & Immigration

North of El Norte

Illegalized Mexican Migrants in Canada

by (author) Paloma E. Villegas

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Sep 2020
Category
Emigration & Immigration, Emigration & Immigration, General, Immigration
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774863407
    Publish Date
    Sep 2020
    List Price
    $125.00
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774863377
    Publish Date
    Sep 2020
    List Price
    $89.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774863384
    Publish Date
    Apr 2021
    List Price
    $32.95

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North of El Norte provides an important counterpoint to the attention given to Mexican migration to the United States by examining a lesser-known migration route: that taken by contemporary Mexican migrants to Canada.

 

Paloma Villegas considers changing Canadian immigration policy and practice, and the implications of these changes for Mexican migrants without permanent resident status. Her analysis addresses the context in Mexico, the experience of border crossing, policies to restrict migration, and migrants' options to achieve secure status. Villegas also provides an assessment of the barriers migrants encounter once in Canada, specifically in the labour market, in their creative pursuits, and in accessing health care.

 

Drawing on interviews, policy documents, media accounts, and literature from local social service organizations, North of El Norte concludes that migration – and by extension migrant illegalization – is assembled, produced, and negotiated. The comprehensive research in this book sheds light on how individuals and institutions work to illegalize migrants and on migrants' active resistance to these efforts.

About the author

Contributor Notes

Paloma E. Villegas is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at California State University, San Bernardino. Her research on the intersections of migration, citizenship, borders, race, and gender can be found in publications such as Citizenship Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Women’s Studies International Forum, the Journal of Gender Studies, the Journal of Law and Society, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Refuge, and the Journal of International Migration and Integration. She is also a co-editor of Seeds of Hope: Creating a Future in the Shadows (with Tanya Aberman and Francisco Villegas).

Editorial Reviews

North of El Norte is by every measure a timely and welcome contribution to critical debates.

Literary Review of Canada