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Karine Côté-Boucher is Associate Professor at the School of Criminology at Universite de Montréal, where she is also responsible for the Master's and graduate diploma in security, and a research fellow at the van Vollenhoven Institute at Leiden University (Netherlands). Karine is an expert on border control organizations and policy. Her research unpacks how borders shape our lives. Trained in Sociology and Anthropology, she has done fieldwork with Canadian border officers and transborder truck drivers. Her current research further investigates borders along two axes. The first examines the impacts of digitalization on immigration governance and discretion in border control. The second inquires into how subnational welfare/immigration regimes border social reproduction in an era of rapid global aging and care deficits.
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Bordering social reproduction: The welfare/immigration regimes of Webece and Ontario in Canada. Critical Social Policy, 02610183231219187. University of Montreal Publication 2024-01-04 But where’s the body? Bodies, time, money, and the political economy of post-pandemic field research Since the pandemic, field work has been transformed by shifts in the political economy affecting the material conditions underpinning research. In this research note, a research team considers their challenges and learning in completing field studies conducted in 2022, including intensified strains on time, money, researchers’ bodies, and risks associated with illness and infection spread. We argue that a neoliberal “research super-hero” norm operates within the research community, rooted in a conception of high productivity that mingles uneasily, for many researchers, with feminist, anti-racist, and anti-colonial social justice aims and responsibilities. Our 2022 fieldwork experience led us to notice how this norm has circulated within our explicitly feminist research team and nudged us to challenge it, while raising questions about how a “research-worker” norm can best be supported. University of Montreal Publication 2024-08-07 Donna Baines, Susan Braedley, Tamara Daly, Gudmund Ågotnes, Albert Banerjee, Elias Chaccour,
Côté-Boucher, K. , Stinne Glasdam, Sean Hillier, Martha MacDonald, Frode F Jacobsen, Christie Stilwell
Counter-narratives of active aging: Disability, trauma, and joy in the age-friendly city University of Montreal Publication 2024-01-06 Bordering social reproduction: The welfare/immigration regimes of Quebec and Ontario in Canada This article makes three crucial, related arguments. First, most European analyses of immigration and social welfare fail to consider how these policies intersect to shape the social reproduction of populations, instead sticking to notions of welfare chauvinism, social citizenship, and deservingness. Second, welfare/immigration analyses are usually set at the national level, but subnational comparisons can challenge tidy welfare state regime categorizations, revealing both nuance and policy opportunities. Third, a focus on social reproduction regimes that includes welfare and immigration policies reveals how jurisdictions border the extraction of social reproductive labour, with impacts on who gets in and under which conditions, and on the distribution of paid and unpaid social reproductive work within immigrant and established families in Canada. Developing our feminist border analysis, we illustrate our approach through a comparative analysis of Quebec and Ontario to show how social reproductive borders extract care labour and from whom, under diverging policy regimes. University of Montreal Publication 2024-01-04 La double peine des non-citoyens au Canada: Étude des rôles des juges du système de justice pénale à la lumière des interdictions de territoire pour motif de criminalité Les sections 36(1) et 36(2) de la Loi sur l’immigration et la protection des réfugiés (LIPR) établissent les critères pour qu’un non-citoyen trouvé coupable d’une infraction criminelle au Canada soit déclaré interdit de territoire pour motif de (grande) criminalité. Cet article conceptualise ces interdictions de territoire comme une double peine pour les non-citoyens et comme un acte d’internalisation de la frontière canadienne, et soutient que les juges du système de justice pénale ont acquis le pouvoir de (dé)construire cette frontière. Sur la base d’une analyse jurisprudentielle de 59 décisions écrites par les cours municipales et la Cour du Québec entre 2002 et 2023, l’étude s’intéresse à la façon dont les juges du système de justice pénale conçoivent leur rôle à la lumière d’un tel pouvoir. Les résultats suggèrent que les juges du système de justice pénale se divisent en trois grands groupes selon la conception qu’ils ont de leur rôle : si certains juges acceptent et intègrent dans leur processus décisionnel le pouvoir de contribuer à la construction, le maintien ou le démantèlement de la frontière, d’autres font des efforts pour justifier pourquoi ils refusent de l’intégrer. L’article conclut que le pouvoir donné aux juges du système pénal par la LIPR a transformé la pénalité canadienne à travers non seulement la modification des mesures qui sont imposées par le système, mais aussi et surtout à travers la modification des pratiques des acteurs qui en font partie. University of Montreal Publication 2024-01-01 Introduction. Frontières : entre criminologie et interdisciplinarité University of Montreal, Concordia University Publication 2024-01-01