Risk Management or Racial Profiling? The Law, Canada Customs and Regulating Risk at the Canadian border.

This paper is based on a close textual analysis of the decisions rendered in legal cases pertaining to racial profiling at the Candian border. It will examine the ways in which discussions of race are supplanted in the courts by considerations of discretion, expertise and reasonableness. These considerations are themselves informed by the logic of "targeted governance", which is deployed as a means of regulating risk at Canadian ports of entry. I will also consider the enabling role of law in relation to the practice of racial profiling at the border - that is, the ways in which the absence of discussions of race actually sets out ways in which racial profiling can be carried out legally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]