A Half-open Door: A Case Study of Canada’s Special Immigration Programs for Afghan Nationals Neela Hassan, PhD Candidate in Sociology and Legal Studies, University of Waterloo, Canada.

It aims to understand the underlying values and factors that guide Canada's response to Afghan migrants and to assess the impact of these policies on Afghan nationals, considering the critical and intricate political and economic situation of Afghanistan following the Taliban's return. [...] The study findings suggest that the ambiguity and impracticality of the requirements are strategic and demonstrably serve the interest of Canada's discriminatory immigration politics that determine the desirability of immigrants based on their race and ethnicity. [...] The fall of the Islamic Republic Government and the Taliban’s sudden takeover caused hundreds of thousands of Afghans to rush to airports and land borders, trying to escape the country. [...] The ambiguity and informality in the requirements and procedure of Canada’s response and the absence of laws that could address these issues left thousands of Afghans who need protection in a limbo. [...] None of the policy documents and information shared by the IRCC and the federal government indicated the processing timeline of applications submitted after the fall of Kabul.