Refugees Who Arrive by Boat and Canada’s Commitment to the Refugee Convention: A Discursive Analysis
This paper offers a comparative analysis of official discourse surrounding three incidents of asylum seekers arriving in Canada by boat: the Komagata Maru in 1914; the Sri Lankans who arrived in Newfoundland on lifeboats in 1986; and the Ocean Lady in 2009. The objective is to assess Canada’s commit...
| Published in: | Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English French |
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York University Libraries
2011
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.32088 https://doaj.org/article/56b14fc33151424fa2a1295fdedd5f2c |