Deportation and the Confluence of Violence within Forensic Mental Health and Immigration Systems.

The Practice Of Deportation For Those Identified With 'mental Illness' In Canada Allows Contemporary Conceptions, Interpretations, Functions Of Discourse, And Technologies Of 'mental Illness', 'criminality', And 'race' To Be Studied Through The Shared Texts Of The Mental Health, Criminal Justice, And Immigration Systems. These Systems Rely On Seemingly Separate Operations In Order To Continue Common Violent Projects Of Segregation, Confinement, Removal, The Application Of Harm To The Physical Body And The Identification Of People As Inherently Dehumanized. The Practices And Technologies Of Evaluation And Decision Making Used By Professionals, Police, Lawyers And Experts Are Questioned In This Book For Their Participation In The Perpetuation Of Historical Forms Of Colonial Violence Through The Enforcement Of Racial And Eugenic Policies And Laws In Canada-- Machine Generated Contents Note: -- 1. Introduction: Outlining The Problem -- The Confluence Of Mental Health, Criminal Justice And Immigration In The Authorization Of Deportation2. The Necessity Of An Attention To Colonization: An Addition To Critical Mental Health Literature3. The Canadian Forensic Mental Health System: An Overview4. Conceptualizing The Violence Of Deportation At The Confluence Of Criminal Justice, Mental Health And Immigration Systems5. Colonial Continuities And Colonial Technologies Of Difference6. A Post-colonial Document Analysis Of Confluence7. Historical Data-archival Artifacts: Deportation And The Enforcement Of Undesireability8. Case Studies -- The Appeals Division Of The Irb: Stories Of Resistance9. Confluence: Analysis Of Cases10. Conclusion: (re)producing (neo)colonial Relations Of Authority And Racial And Eugenic System Of Violence. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction: Outlining the Problem—The Confluence of Mental Health, Criminal Justice, and Immigration in the Authorization of Deportation....Pages 1-17 The Necessity of an Attention to Colonization: An Addition to Mental Health Literature....Pages 18-42 The Canadian Forensic Mental Health System: An Overview....Pages 43-54 Conceptualizing the Violence of Deportation at the Confluence of Criminal Justice, Mental Health, and Immigration Systems....Pages 55-82 Colonial Continuities and Colonial Technologies of Difference....Pages 83-112 A Postcolonial Document Analysis of Confluence....Pages 113-123 Historical Data—Archival Artifacts: Deportation and the Enforcement of Undesirability....Pages 124-145 Case Studies—The Appeals Division of the IRB: Stories of Resistance....Pages 146-156 Confluence: The Untreatable, the Unrehabilitatable, and the Undeserving Alien....Pages 157-226 Conclusion: (Re)Producing (Neo)Colonial Relations of Authority and Racial and Eugenic Systems of Violence....Pages 227-231 Back Matter....Pages 232-261 "The practice of deportation for those identified with 'mental illness' in Canada allows contemporary conceptions, interpretations, functions of discourse, and technologies of 'mental illness', 'criminality', and 'race' to be studied through the shared texts of the mental health, criminal justice, and immigration systems. These systems rely on seemingly separate operations in order to continue common violent projects of segregation, confinement, removal, the application of harm to the physical body and the identification of people as inherently dehumanized. The practices and technologies of evaluation and decision making used by professionals, police, lawyers and experts are questioned in this book for their participation in the perpetuation of historical forms of colonial violence through the enforcement of racial and eugenic policies and laws in Canada"-- Provided by publisher