Journal Articles
SUSPECTS IN THE CITY: Browning the 'not-quite' Canadian citizen
This essay explores the circulation of fear and suspicion in Toronto and Montreal during perceived national security crises, which in recent years have been heavily influenced by post-9/11 US events, discourses and legal acts. It discusses how non-status residents and 'Canadian-born brown' residents have both become the focus of suspicion and intensified their own suspicion of fellow residents and police/state officials. In order to draw out the spectral life and real-world impact of current suspect figures, the essay examines the expression of mutual fear - in the context of a post-crisis 'affective recircuitry' - and briefly analyses the work of the Montreal-based People's Commission on Immigration and Security.
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