In 1999 a ship carrying children, teenagers, from China was apprehended off the coast of British Columbia. Newspapers and televisions referred to them as "migrants" and migrants they no doubt were, but one cannot help reading the exclusion of these "migrants" from the category of "children," which would make it possible to include them in a definition of family reserved for the people within the nation. All the accoutrement of outsider could then be brought to regulate and choreograph their appearance both on the television screens and in newspaper photographs as well as the interior of the body politic.

— A Map to the Door of No Return by Dionne Brand (Page 65)