He draws on perspectives of critical mental health, postcolonial theory, critical race theory, and critical disability studies in his writing and research. One of the broad areas he has focused on is the confluence of criminal justice, mental health and immigration systems. He comes to this work with over a decade of experience in the mental health field in areas of assertive community treatment, community-based early intervention, supportive housing, crisis respite, and governance settings. Dr. Joseph has been instrumental in the recent establishment of Hamilton’s Anti-Racism Resource Centre. Ameil is also the author of: “Deportation and the confluence of violence within forensic mental health and immigration systems,” an historiographical post-colonial analysis of the practice of deportation in Canada for those identified as “undesirable”, published by Palgrave-McMillan.