Abstract
Despite the growing use of biotechnologies, citizenship continues to be largely contingent on what Michel Foucault has called “a network of writing” designed to “capture and fix” the identity of its subject. This is perhaps particularly true for refugee claimants, whose applications to the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada include a two-page personal, chronological narrative that explains all the reasons for their application. As part of its attempt to understand how refugees are read in Canada today, this essay considers the challenges presented by this form and the larger process of which it is a part. The essay then explores the innovative and promising ways in which a number of contemporary Canadian writers of fiction and poetry are responding to the state regulation of citizenship.
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