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Abstract Often people migrate through interstitial zones and categories between state territories, policies, or designations like 'immigrant' or 'refugee.' Where there is no formal protection or legal status, people seek, [...]

Abstract This paper addresses the gap in research on the social dimensions of refugee resettlement. This is accomplished by examining refugee belonging and definitions of 'integration' through a case study [...]

This paper argues that states have undergone a shift in how they see and respond to human smuggling. They are now less bound by those land borders that once demarcated the edges of sovereign territory and act more transnationally in response to the transnational practices of human smugglers. The interception of four cargo boats carrying migrants smuggled from Fujian, China, serves as a case study. Central to understanding the struggle between smugglers and States are geography and vision: how each sees the landscape, plays on distance and proximity, and puts geography to work. After explaining the methodology, I locate Canada in the global industries of human smuggling and border enforcement, outline changes to border enforcement that have taken place in the time since these interceptions, and then discuss the main challenges facing nation‐states in their efforts to combat smuggling. The paper then outlines strategies available to curb smuggling and explores some of Canada's particular efforts. I conclude with policy recommendations.

This commentary responds to Bagelman and Gitome’s (2021) ‘Birthing Across Borders’. I discuss some of the many contributions and insights of their article and address new lines of inquiry and potential gaps that remain to be addressed, including the need to attend to the material realities of birthing bodies, to conduct research on birthing in other liminal spaces across borders, and to understand the subsequent lives of babies birthed in these spaces.