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Un geste d’hospitalité aux demandeurs d’asile. Une analyse de la mobilisation du collectif « Bridges not Borders – Créons des ponts »
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Un geste d’hospitalité aux demandeurs d’asile. Une analyse de la mobilisation du collectif « Bridges not Borders – Créons des ponts »
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The authors focus on the mobilization of a collective created by citizens under the name Bridges not Borders (BnotB) that has been working to defend the asylum seekers that have been crossing the Canada-U.S. border “irregularly” at Roxham Road, southwest of Montreal, since 2017. The BnotB collective is comprised of about 15 Anglophone and Francophone active members, most of whom live in Hemmingford, a village just off Roxham Road. BnotB has developed three main lines of action: sharing information on refugee issues, lobbying political bodies at the federal, provincial, and municipal levels, and supporting refugees at the border. The authors note that their case study of BnotB contributes to the literature on borders by bringing a “bottom-up” perspective of the dynamics and mobilization of citizens coming to the help of vulnerable persons at an “irregular” border crossing, whose actions can be defined under the gesture of hospitality. In 2023, federal authorities permanently shut down the Roxham Road entry point into Canada.
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Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees
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Vol. 38
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no. 2
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1-19
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Novembre 2022
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fr
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Belkhodja, Chedly, and Cassandre Gratton. “Un geste d’hospitalité aux demandeurs d’asile. Une analyse de la mobilisation du collectif « Bridges not Borders – Créons des ponts ».” Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees Vol. 38, no. 2 (November 2022): 1–19. https://refuge.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/refuge/article/view/40878/36817.
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