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Irregular migration is a growing, global issue that is still undertheorized in the Canadian context. While economic globalization and capitalist expansion displace growing numbers of migrants, advanced nations including Canada are tightening their borders and increasing their immigration laws. With fewer legal migration channels available, a growing number of migrants are choosing irregular ways of life, whereby they reside, work, and raise their families underground. This paper critically assesses how irregular migration is produced and perpetuated in Canada. Following other critical migration scholars (Andrijasevic 2009; De Genova 2002; Goldring et al. 2009), I begin from the premise that not only laws, but nation-state rulers and agents, employers, and a diversity of social actors who may appear unconnected to the government engage in practices that contribute to the production of irregular migration. From this view, irregularity is seen less as a legal status and more as a sociopolitical condition generated and maintained by a range of structural and psychosocial determinants. Henceforth, I discuss several key geopolitical, juridicial, and sociopsychological determinants of irregularity in Canada. Further, I highlight the challenging conditions that constitute irregular life in the Canadian context in order to make imperative the need for social change as well as propose some directions for political action. La migration irrégulière est un phénomène global qui s’accroît, mais qui n’a pas encore été abordé dans le contexte canadien. Pendant que la globalisation économique et l’expansion du capitalisme déplacent un certain nombre d’immigrants, les pays développés, y compris le Canada resserrent leurs frontières et renforcent leurs lois d’immigrations. Avec quelques canaux de migration légaux disponibles, un nombre croissant d’immigrants choisissent les voies irrégulières de la vie, au moyen desquelles ils vivent, travaillent et élèvent leurs familles. Ce papier évalue de manière critique la façon dont la ... |