Deportation and the confluence of violence within forensic mental health and immigration systems
By: Ameil J. Joseph, McMaster University, Canada
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Houndsmills, Basingstoke Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137513403
Subjects: Forensic psychology; Mental health; PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Forensic Psychology; Immigrants; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society
Description: "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"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 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.