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

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  • © 2015

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  1. Ameil J. Joseph

    1. McMaster University, Canada

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Outlining the Problem—The Confluence of Mental Health, Criminal Justice, and Immigration in the Authorization of Deportation

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    Pages 1-17

  3. The Necessity of an Attention to Colonization: An Addition to Mental Health Literature

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    Pages 18-42

  4. The Canadian Forensic Mental Health System: An Overview

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    Pages 43-54

  5. Conceptualizing the Violence of Deportation at the Confluence of Criminal Justice, Mental Health, and Immigration Systems

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    Pages 55-82

  6. Colonial Continuities and Colonial Technologies of Difference

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    Pages 83-112

  7. A Postcolonial Document Analysis of Confluence

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    Pages 113-123

  8. Historical Data—Archival Artifacts: Deportation and the Enforcement of Undesirability

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    Pages 124-145

  9. Case Studies—The Appeals Division of the IRB: Stories of Resistance

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    Pages 146-156

  10. Confluence: The Untreatable, the Unrehabilitatable, and the Undeserving Alien

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    Pages 157-226

  11. Conclusion: (Re)Producing (Neo)Colonial Relations of Authority and Racial and Eugenic Systems of Violence

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    Pages 227-231

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 232-261
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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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • McMaster University, Canada

    Ameil J. Joseph

About the author

Ameil Joseph is Assistant Professor of the School of Social Work at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He has over ten years of direct practice experience working in the mental health field in assertive community treatment, community-based early intervention, supportive housing, crisis respite, and governance settings.

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