David Moffette
Biographic Data
| ID | 124937 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Moffette |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Moffette |
| SIGNATURE | MOFFETTE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4131-2671 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Governmental practices of regularisation
Governmental practices of regularisation
In the contested politics of mobility, programs to regularise undocumented immigrants act simultaneously as progressive tools for social inclusion, and as bordering devices organised around states' assessment of desirability. This article studies these dynamics during the most significant regularisation program in Canada's history, the 1973 Adjustment of Status Program. Drawing on an analysis of institutional archival material, parliamentary deba…
The Violence of Everyday Police Disrespect
Scholarship on police violence tends to either center the historical role of the institution in protecting an unequal social order or the individual use of force. To broaden our understanding and unpack how violence manifests in everyday interactions, we examined 251 accounts of police encounters in Ottawa, Canada. Finding that disrespect was disturbingly common, we developed a typology that highlights the spectrum of police disrespect as it mani…
A. Mountz, The Death of Asylum
Immigration status and policing in Canada
Bridging prison and immigration justice is of utmost importance, and an obvious and strategic point of encounter for dialogue among activists and scholars working on these issues is immigration detention. But as penal and carceral abolitionists have taught us, we cannot tackle prison injustice without addressing broader issues in policing, criminal law and other means of coercive social control. Taking my cues from this work, I suggest that we mo…
The Criminalization of Migration
Immigration et criminalisation au Canada
Les intersections entre immigration et criminalisation sont nombreuses. Au Canada, près de 20 ans après l’entrée en vigueur de la Loi sur l’immigration et la protection des réfugiés (LIPR) et à la suite de plusieurs arrêts importants de la Cour suprême du Canada, il convient de faire le point sur cet enjeu. Cet article offre une typologie des intersections existantes et propose une analyse des transformations récentes. Nous traitons des situation…
Governing Irregular Migration
This thorough analysis of immigration governance in Spain explores the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion at play at one of Europe’s southern borders. David Moffette analyzes Spain’s processes of immigration governance and reveals the complicated series of legal obstacles facing many migrants. Differential access to border mobility is a central concern of contemporary politics, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the European Union, where …
Flickering Presence
Analytics of biopolitics and government have proven to be powerful tools in a growing scholarship examining the bordering, surveillance, securitization and contestation of migratory processes. Yet the critical potential of such research is hampered by the rather limited ways it has managed to make sense of race and racism. While Foucault was insistent that governmentality should orient itself to the understanding of singularities, too often race …
The jurisdictional games of immigration policing
The article maps out the multilayered legal governance of immigrant street vendors in Barcelona. The case study is used to develop the literature on crimmigration by suggesting better ways to account for the dynamic, asymmetric, and uneven legal intersections at play in immigration governance. Questioning the idea of a merger between immigration law and criminal law that scholars of crimmigration often imply, the article suggests that it is the h…
Fighting Human Smuggling or Criminalizing Refugees? Regimes of Justification in and around R v Appulonappa
Following the arrival of the MV Ocean Lady in 2009, four men were charged with human smuggling under s. 117 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act for having helped Sri Lankan asylum seekers reach Canada. Section 117 made it a criminal offence to aid and abet the unauthorized entry of asylum seekers, including when this was done for humanitarian reasons, to help family members, or as a matter of mutual aid. The case made its way to the Sup…
Sanctuary City Organizing in Canada
In recent years, migrant justice organizers in Canada have developed campaigns aimed at building, legislating, and enforcing municipal commitments to alleviating and resisting the harms done by federal immigration enforcement, and ensuring migrant access to municipal services. As a result of these efforts, some cities, including Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Hamilton, have declared themselves "sanctuary cities," and campaigns centered around …
Propositions pour une sociologie pragmatique des frontières
Bien que les sociologues aient beaucoup travaillé sur des objets connexes, l’étude des frontières demeure un champ de recherche dominé par les géographes et politistes. Ce sont eux qui ont proposé qu’il faille considérer la frontière non pas comme un objet physique spatialement situé, mais bien comme un ensemble de pratiques d’acteurs dispersés. Nous soutenons qu’en adoptant une approche pragmatique des frontières qui mette l’accent sur la multip…
Uninhibited violence
Bringing a critical race analysis to existing literature on securitization, this article addresses a lacuna in securitization theory and offers a conceptual framework to account for the entanglements between the securitization of immigration and racial violence. First, we consider the limits of the concept of securitization to account for the normality of racial violence, and argue that responses to events deemed to be ‘crises’ need to be analyze…
Governing immigration through probation
Lacking an effective recruitment strategy and wanting to satisfy the demand for immigrant labour, Spanish authorities facilitated the entry of (mostly) Latin American ‘tourists’ in the early 2000s, knowing that many were migrants entering Spain to reside and work irregularly. This strategy is one of postponing control – a strategy of displacing some of the filtering work performed by borders and immigration selection across space and time. In thi…
Muslim Ceutíes, Migrants, and Porteadores
This article analyzes the differential problematizations of 'Muslim Ceutíes,' 'migrants,' and 'porteadores' (carriers) in the Spanish border town of Ceuta located on the south shore of the Gibraltar Strait in North Africa. I argue that convivencia, a local discourse and practice of tolerance meaning 'living together,' can be analyzed as a regime for governing differences premised on tolerance, and nevertheless contributing to the reproduction of …
Convivencia and Securitization
Ceuta is a Spanish city in Northern Morocco. It is thus situated at a European Union border on the African continent. In this context, I contend that migration is generally considered a potential threat to the pacified local order of things by the Christian majority. In order to protect this order of things referred to as convivencia, Christian Ceutíes tend to prefer depoliticizing strategies to manage migration. Nonetheless, migration sometimes …
Jef Huysmans, The Politics of Insecurity. Fear, Migration and Asylum in the EU. Londres, Routledge, 2006, 191 p., notes, bibliogr., index.
Jef Huysmans, The Politics of Insecurity. Fear, Migration and Asylum in the EU. Londres, Routledge, 2006, 191 p., notes, bibliogr., index.. Un article de la revue Anthropologie et Sociétés (Passions politiques) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit.
Jonathan Xavier Inda, Targeting Immigrants
Jonathan Xavier Inda, Targeting Immigrants : Government, Technology, and Ethics. Malden, MA, Blackwell, 2006, 216 p., notes, bibliogr., index.. Un article de la revue Anthropologie et Sociétés (Passions politiques) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Sanctuary City Organizing in Canada
In recent years, migrant justice organizers in Canada have developed campaigns aimed at building, legislating, and enforcing municipal commitments to alleviating and resisting the harms done by federal immigration enforcement, and ensuring migrant access to municipal services. As a result of these efforts, some cities, including Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Hamilton, have declared themselves "sanctuary cities," and campaigns centered around …
Uninhibited violence
Bringing a critical race analysis to existing literature on securitization, this article addresses a lacuna in securitization theory and offers a conceptual framework to account for the entanglements between the securitization of immigration and racial violence. First, we consider the limits of the concept of securitization to account for the normality of racial violence, and argue that responses to events deemed to be ‘crises’ need to be analyze…
The jurisdictional games of immigration policing
The article maps out the multilayered legal governance of immigrant street vendors in Barcelona. The case study is used to develop the literature on crimmigration by suggesting better ways to account for the dynamic, asymmetric, and uneven legal intersections at play in immigration governance. Questioning the idea of a merger between immigration law and criminal law that scholars of crimmigration often imply, the article suggests that it is the h…
Flickering Presence
Analytics of biopolitics and government have proven to be powerful tools in a growing scholarship examining the bordering, surveillance, securitization and contestation of migratory processes. Yet the critical potential of such research is hampered by the rather limited ways it has managed to make sense of race and racism. While Foucault was insistent that governmentality should orient itself to the understanding of singularities, too often race …
Governing immigration through probation
Lacking an effective recruitment strategy and wanting to satisfy the demand for immigrant labour, Spanish authorities facilitated the entry of (mostly) Latin American ‘tourists’ in the early 2000s, knowing that many were migrants entering Spain to reside and work irregularly. This strategy is one of postponing control – a strategy of displacing some of the filtering work performed by borders and immigration selection across space and time. In thi…
Immigration status and policing in Canada
Bridging prison and immigration justice is of utmost importance, and an obvious and strategic point of encounter for dialogue among activists and scholars working on these issues is immigration detention. But as penal and carceral abolitionists have taught us, we cannot tackle prison injustice without addressing broader issues in policing, criminal law and other means of coercive social control. Taking my cues from this work, I suggest that we mo…
Fighting Human Smuggling or Criminalizing Refugees? Regimes of Justification in and around R v Appulonappa
Following the arrival of the MV Ocean Lady in 2009, four men were charged with human smuggling under s. 117 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act for having helped Sri Lankan asylum seekers reach Canada. Section 117 made it a criminal offence to aid and abet the unauthorized entry of asylum seekers, including when this was done for humanitarian reasons, to help family members, or as a matter of mutual aid. The case made its way to the Sup…
The Violence of Everyday Police Disrespect
Scholarship on police violence tends to either center the historical role of the institution in protecting an unequal social order or the individual use of force. To broaden our understanding and unpack how violence manifests in everyday interactions, we examined 251 accounts of police encounters in Ottawa, Canada. Finding that disrespect was disturbingly common, we developed a typology that highlights the spectrum of police disrespect as it mani…
Convivencia and Securitization
Ceuta is a Spanish city in Northern Morocco. It is thus situated at a European Union border on the African continent. In this context, I contend that migration is generally considered a potential threat to the pacified local order of things by the Christian majority. In order to protect this order of things referred to as convivencia, Christian Ceutíes tend to prefer depoliticizing strategies to manage migration. Nonetheless, migration sometimes …
Muslim Ceutíes, Migrants, and Porteadores
This article analyzes the differential problematizations of 'Muslim Ceutíes,' 'migrants,' and 'porteadores' (carriers) in the Spanish border town of Ceuta located on the south shore of the Gibraltar Strait in North Africa. I argue that convivencia, a local discourse and practice of tolerance meaning 'living together,' can be analyzed as a regime for governing differences premised on tolerance, and nevertheless contributing to the reproduction of …
Jef Huysmans, The Politics of Insecurity. Fear, Migration and Asylum in the EU. Londres, Routledge, 2006, 191 p., notes, bibliogr., index.
Jef Huysmans, The Politics of Insecurity. Fear, Migration and Asylum in the EU. Londres, Routledge, 2006, 191 p., notes, bibliogr., index.. Un article de la revue Anthropologie et Sociétés (Passions politiques) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit.
Jonathan Xavier Inda, Targeting Immigrants
Jonathan Xavier Inda, Targeting Immigrants : Government, Technology, and Ethics. Malden, MA, Blackwell, 2006, 216 p., notes, bibliogr., index.. Un article de la revue Anthropologie et Sociétés (Passions politiques) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Convivencia and Securitization
Ceuta is a Spanish city in Northern Morocco. It is thus situated at a European Union border on the African continent. In this context, I contend that migration is generally considered a potential threat to the pacified local order of things by the Christian majority. In order to protect this order of things referred to as convivencia, Christian Ceutíes tend to prefer depoliticizing strategies to manage migration. Nonetheless, migration sometimes …
Muslim Ceutíes, Migrants, and Porteadores
This article analyzes the differential problematizations of 'Muslim Ceutíes,' 'migrants,' and 'porteadores' (carriers) in the Spanish border town of Ceuta located on the south shore of the Gibraltar Strait in North Africa. I argue that convivencia, a local discourse and practice of tolerance meaning 'living together,' can be analyzed as a regime for governing differences premised on tolerance, and nevertheless contributing to the reproduction of …
Governing immigration through probation
Lacking an effective recruitment strategy and wanting to satisfy the demand for immigrant labour, Spanish authorities facilitated the entry of (mostly) Latin American ‘tourists’ in the early 2000s, knowing that many were migrants entering Spain to reside and work irregularly. This strategy is one of postponing control – a strategy of displacing some of the filtering work performed by borders and immigration selection across space and time. In thi…
Propositions pour une sociologie pragmatique des frontières
Bien que les sociologues aient beaucoup travaillé sur des objets connexes, l’étude des frontières demeure un champ de recherche dominé par les géographes et politistes. Ce sont eux qui ont proposé qu’il faille considérer la frontière non pas comme un objet physique spatialement situé, mais bien comme un ensemble de pratiques d’acteurs dispersés. Nous soutenons qu’en adoptant une approche pragmatique des frontières qui mette l’accent sur la multip…
Uninhibited violence
Bringing a critical race analysis to existing literature on securitization, this article addresses a lacuna in securitization theory and offers a conceptual framework to account for the entanglements between the securitization of immigration and racial violence. First, we consider the limits of the concept of securitization to account for the normality of racial violence, and argue that responses to events deemed to be ‘crises’ need to be analyze…
Governing Irregular Migration
This thorough analysis of immigration governance in Spain explores the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion at play at one of Europe’s southern borders. David Moffette analyzes Spain’s processes of immigration governance and reveals the complicated series of legal obstacles facing many migrants. Differential access to border mobility is a central concern of contemporary politics, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the European Union, where …
Flickering Presence
Analytics of biopolitics and government have proven to be powerful tools in a growing scholarship examining the bordering, surveillance, securitization and contestation of migratory processes. Yet the critical potential of such research is hampered by the rather limited ways it has managed to make sense of race and racism. While Foucault was insistent that governmentality should orient itself to the understanding of singularities, too often race …
The jurisdictional games of immigration policing
The article maps out the multilayered legal governance of immigrant street vendors in Barcelona. The case study is used to develop the literature on crimmigration by suggesting better ways to account for the dynamic, asymmetric, and uneven legal intersections at play in immigration governance. Questioning the idea of a merger between immigration law and criminal law that scholars of crimmigration often imply, the article suggests that it is the h…
Fighting Human Smuggling or Criminalizing Refugees? Regimes of Justification in and around R v Appulonappa
Following the arrival of the MV Ocean Lady in 2009, four men were charged with human smuggling under s. 117 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act for having helped Sri Lankan asylum seekers reach Canada. Section 117 made it a criminal offence to aid and abet the unauthorized entry of asylum seekers, including when this was done for humanitarian reasons, to help family members, or as a matter of mutual aid. The case made its way to the Sup…
Sanctuary City Organizing in Canada
In recent years, migrant justice organizers in Canada have developed campaigns aimed at building, legislating, and enforcing municipal commitments to alleviating and resisting the harms done by federal immigration enforcement, and ensuring migrant access to municipal services. As a result of these efforts, some cities, including Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Hamilton, have declared themselves "sanctuary cities," and campaigns centered around …
The Criminalization of Migration
Immigration et criminalisation au Canada
Les intersections entre immigration et criminalisation sont nombreuses. Au Canada, près de 20 ans après l’entrée en vigueur de la Loi sur l’immigration et la protection des réfugiés (LIPR) et à la suite de plusieurs arrêts importants de la Cour suprême du Canada, il convient de faire le point sur cet enjeu. Cet article offre une typologie des intersections existantes et propose une analyse des transformations récentes. Nous traitons des situation…
A. Mountz, The Death of Asylum
Immigration status and policing in Canada
Bridging prison and immigration justice is of utmost importance, and an obvious and strategic point of encounter for dialogue among activists and scholars working on these issues is immigration detention. But as penal and carceral abolitionists have taught us, we cannot tackle prison injustice without addressing broader issues in policing, criminal law and other means of coercive social control. Taking my cues from this work, I suggest that we mo…
The Violence of Everyday Police Disrespect
Scholarship on police violence tends to either center the historical role of the institution in protecting an unequal social order or the individual use of force. To broaden our understanding and unpack how violence manifests in everyday interactions, we examined 251 accounts of police encounters in Ottawa, Canada. Finding that disrespect was disturbingly common, we developed a typology that highlights the spectrum of police disrespect as it mani…
Governmental practices of regularisation
Governmental practices of regularisation
In the contested politics of mobility, programs to regularise undocumented immigrants act simultaneously as progressive tools for social inclusion, and as bordering devices organised around states' assessment of desirability. This article studies these dynamics during the most significant regularisation program in Canada's history, the 1973 Adjustment of Status Program. Drawing on an analysis of institutional archival material, parliamentary deba…
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (10 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Immigration (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Global Security and Public Health (4 works)