Meet the Neighbors!--Immigration and National Security
Mary Foster & Rémy Huberdeau. http://www.peoplescommission.org
Foster talked about the enhanced national security measure, which is under review in the supreme court. According to her, permanent residents and even citizens become vulnerable under this measure and face deportation and detention overseas. Many cases, allegedly as a connection to terrorism, are likely to be made up based on 'outsourcing' information uttered during some one's torture or suspicion originating from their race and ethnicity. Hearing individual cases, People's Commission set up 9 commissioners in order to gather collective data in light of individual cases, publicize it and 'break silence'. Through a public conference the People's Commission organized, individual stories were told and the content was recorded in video. The outcome is distributed as comic books, videos and teachers' manual. Huberdeau mentions the quality of video was a factor to select certain stories out of the entire presentation. It appears that there was no adequate equipment such that a camera placed in the back of the room did not have an external audio source, thus recorded audio from the built-in mic. Foster also mentioned cases in which one in political asylum in Canada is not free because of an allegation of military action engagement in the home country and another is detained for a long period of time overseas, which shows clear Canadian government involvement with it.
While discussing media exposure, Foster talked about ignorance from both politicians and media. I think issues related to national security can be hardly raised at a national level because of a strong common sense in favor of security on the basis of nationalism, thus a strategy for 'boomerang effect' (Keck & Sikkink, 1998) should be considered or an collaborative international movement, as Hardt and Negri (2004) suggests in Multitude, will be a more effective way to go.
Foster talked about the enhanced national security measure, which is under review in the supreme court. According to her, permanent residents and even citizens become vulnerable under this measure and face deportation and detention overseas. Many cases, allegedly as a connection to terrorism, are likely to be made up based on 'outsourcing' information uttered during some one's torture or suspicion originating from their race and ethnicity. Hearing individual cases, People's Commission set up 9 commissioners in order to gather collective data in light of individual cases, publicize it and 'break silence'. Through a public conference the People's Commission organized, individual stories were told and the content was recorded in video. The outcome is distributed as comic books, videos and teachers' manual. Huberdeau mentions the quality of video was a factor to select certain stories out of the entire presentation. It appears that there was no adequate equipment such that a camera placed in the back of the room did not have an external audio source, thus recorded audio from the built-in mic. Foster also mentioned cases in which one in political asylum in Canada is not free because of an allegation of military action engagement in the home country and another is detained for a long period of time overseas, which shows clear Canadian government involvement with it.
While discussing media exposure, Foster talked about ignorance from both politicians and media. I think issues related to national security can be hardly raised at a national level because of a strong common sense in favor of security on the basis of nationalism, thus a strategy for 'boomerang effect' (Keck & Sikkink, 1998) should be considered or an collaborative international movement, as Hardt and Negri (2004) suggests in Multitude, will be a more effective way to go.
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