Gendered border crossings

This chapter analyzes the Canada-US Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) nine years after its implementation, while asking the question: what about gender? How have initial concerns about the STCA's adverse gender impact mapped on to the current, much altered landscape of Canadian refugee law? The chapter maintains that while recent research on the STCA clearly indicates that the STCA is impacting women in adverse ways, these effects are difficult to identify with precision. The chapter concludes that in it is in this respect that the gendered impact of the STCA is most acutely felt: its gendered contours are increasingly disappearing from view.