ABSTRACT
The chapter focuses on three key points which aim to demonstrate that the journey is a series of negotiations and encounters. In this chapter negotiations and encounters, which designate the boundaries and rules of the movement of refugees, are surveyed in the context of non-European home country–Turkey–Canada. In this sense, the chapter will begin with the UNHCR’s formation and the Geneva Convention in the early 1950s and its role in the asylum journey to Canada via Turkey. After laying out a brief history and norms on refugee governance, the chapter turns to Turkey’s asylum governance with a specific focus on the geographical limitations imposed on non-European asylum applicants who seek for asylum and wait for relocation to countries of resettlement. For asylum travellers who receive refugee status and whose cases are accepted by Canada as the resettlement country, the third bureaucratic phase is the resettlement in Canada. The third section of the chapter engages with resettlement of non-European refugees in Canada via Turkey by focusing specifically on Canada’s state-sponsored refugee resettlement programme.
