Seeking Asylum: Human Smuggling and Bureaucracy at the Border

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SEEKING ASYLUM This page intentionally left blank S E E K I N G A S Y L U M Human Smuggling and Bureaucracy at the Border Alison Mountz University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis London Portions of chapter 2 were originally published in “Human Smuggling and the Canadian State,” Canadian Foreign Policy 13, no. 1 (2006): 59–80. Copyright 2010 by Alison Mountz All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mountz, Alison. Seeking asylum : human smuggling and bureaucracy at the border / Alison Mountz. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8166-6537-2 (hc : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8166-6538-9 (pb : alk. paper) 1. Human smuggling. 2. Emigration and immigration. 3. Human smuggling—Prevention. 4. Illegal aliens. I. Title. JV6201.M68 2010 364.1’37—dc22 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 I see a whole generation freefalling toward a borderless future . . . I see them all wandering around a continent without a name . . . all passing through Califas enroute to other selves & other geographies (I speak in tongues) standing on the map of my political desires I toast to a borderless future —Guillermo Gómez-Peña, The New World Border This page intentionally left blank ...