Building on recent work on the legal production of illegality and non-dichotomous approaches to migratory status, we review Canadian immigration and refugee policy, and analyze pathways to loss of migratory status and the implications of less than full status for access to social services.

We argue that binary conceptions of migration status (legal/illegal) do not reflect this context, and advocate the use of 'precarious status' to capture variable forms of irregular status and illegality, including documented illegality.


   http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13621020902850643