Profit over principle as China's savagery in Tibet is overlooked.
OLEAN -- The blathering print and TV prognosticators are abuzz with speculation this country may repeat its controversial boycott of the Olympics 28 years ago--this time to teach those inexorable and didactic Chinese a long-overdue lesson for their recent harsh treatment of Tibetans. Here's a prediction regarding...

The global visa regime and the political technologies of the international self: borders, bodies, biopolitics.
This article examines the micropolitics of the border by tracing the interface between government and individual body. In the first act of confession before the vanguard of governmental machinery, the border examination is crucial to both the operation of the global mobility regime and of sovereign power. The visa...

How will ID benefit people?
Byline: Willie N Ng THE opposition to the proposed national identification card system may be due to the little that is known about it. The first official rationale is that it would do wonders in fighting crime. On the opposition side, the fear...

Snoop and lie: the U.S. destroys democracy.
With the internal plans in the Department of Defense and the creation of the new Department of Homeland Security, the United States has embarked upon a program of spying on citizens and deceiving them at the same time, a program unprecedented even during times of total war (as in...

Under the nation-state: modernist deterritorialization in Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano.
In a manner that anticipates the hybrid modes of identity explored by many postcolonial writers, Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano presents a deterritorialized and nomadic self: a self to which all boundaries appear both permeable and contingent. (1) Directly challenging the nation-centered model that informs not only British imperialism...

Refugees and border security post-September 11.
Abstract In the aftermath of the terror attack on the United States on 11 September 2001, widespread concerns were raised about security concerns related to access to Canada and the United States of refugee claimants Many new changes were introduced after that event to improve the control...

Global lawgiver?: The UN Security Council arrogantly considers itself the lawgiver for the world, and the Bush administration's submission to its Resolution 1373 puts U.S. sovereignty and liberty at risk. (United Nations).
In 1950, when the United Nations was just five years old, future Secretary of State John Foster Dulles wrote: The Security Council is not a body that merely enforces agreed law. It is a law unto itself. If it considers any situation as a threat to the...

US and Canadian immigration policies: marching together to different tunes. (The Border Papers).
In this issue ... Canadian immigration authorities will have to toughen up their screening and monitoring of visitors to prevent terrorists and criminals from joining the large numbers of entrants to the country ever year. Canada and the United States should cooperate on border security, though there...

History re-edited.
IT WAS A DINNER GUEST AT OUR HOUSE, IN MAY OF last year, who casually mentioned that his University student daughter had been asked to help locate German passports dating to the Nazi period with stamped visas to Shanghai, China. Since I had lived there, would I have one?...

"Passport, please": legal, literary, and critical fictions of identity.
I. THE UNIMAGINABLE MRS. SHIPLEY (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State. (2) Everyone has the right to leave any country including his own, and to return to his country. United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights,...