Syrian refugees in Canada? Interpretation and judgement in the political production of security threats

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dc.contributor.authorSingh, Jessica
dc.contributor.supervisorGlezos, Simon
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-22T16:33:37Z
dc.date.available2017-08-22T16:33:37Z
dc.date.copyright2017en_US
dc.date.issued2017-08-22
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Political Scienceen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractWhat are we to understand by the term ‘security’ in international relations? This thesis explores the theoretical foundations of security risks and threats in modern politics. Taking Thomas Hobbes and Michel Foucault as the paradigmatic theorists of modern political power, this thesis explains security as an inherently contingent and contextual phenomenon, intertwined and embedded in socio-historical discourses. Each of the three chapters explain how security manifests and operates as a type of discourse (discursive formation) under sovereignty, working to achieve particular social, political, and epistemological ends. The practical focus of this project is a case study analysis of the Canadian Liberal Government’s #WelcomeRefugees project, a government assisted resettlement project for displaced victims of the Syrian civil war. Drawing on the example of the case study, this thesis investigates the underlying political, historical, and theoretical conditions which mobilize and inform modern political regimes of security and risk management.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/8446
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectrefugeesen_US
dc.subjectSyrian civil waren_US
dc.subjectJudgementen_US
dc.subjectSecurityen_US
dc.subjectRisk managementen_US
dc.subjectCanadaen_US
dc.titleSyrian refugees in Canada? Interpretation and judgement in the political production of security threatsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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