This article explores the temporality of migration control through an analysis of refugee claim processing in Canada. I draw on organizational reports, commissioned studies, media reports, interviews and archival data to argue that time is a key technology of state-controlled migration regulation. I show that temporal technologies have long been used to both control the access of migrants and the labour of civil servants. Furthermore, I show that procedural temporalities have been consistently manipulated to reflect and facilitate growing restrictionism in Canadian migration regulation. In short, I suggest that migration regulation regimes devise and use temporal technologies to block, deter or delay access to rights to unwanted and unauthorized migrants, and to reduce the cost of doing so where possible.

本文通过对加拿大难民申请处理的分析，探讨了移民控制的时间性。我利用组织报告、委托研究、媒体报道、采访和档案数据来论证时间是国家控制的移民监管的关键技术。我表明，时间技术长期以来一直被用来控制移民的准入和公务员的劳动。此外，我表明程序时间性一直被操纵以反映和促进加拿大移民监管中日益增长的限制主义。简而言之，我建议移民监管制度设计和使用临时技术来阻止、阻止或延迟不受欢迎和未经授权的移民获得权利，并尽可能降低这样做的成本。