Abolishing Migrant Detention in Canada
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4461004 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephanie Latty (0000-0001-7545-0928, Toronto Metropolitan University), Kyon Ferril (Migrant Detainee Support Coalition), Allos Abis (Migrant Detainee Support Coalition), Joshua Price (0000-0003-3246-278X, Toronto Metropolitan University) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 89-105 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnic studies review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1555-1881 • E-ISSN: 2576-2915 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/esr.2024.47.2-3.89 |
| OpenAlex | W4405610874 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
It is a frequent misconception that the Canadian criminal justice system and immigration detention system is more benign and less violent than that of its neighbor to the south. An abolitionist pedagogical approach in Canada can challenge the enduring myth of Canada as a benevolent, post-racial, multicultural nation and reveal the shadowy carceral state. In 2022, four activists came together to implement an abolitionist learning experience designed to raise consciousness on migrant detention in Canada. Our collaborative project, titled the "Detention Review Observation Project," experimented with giving undergraduate students the theoretical and practical tools to grapple with the injustice of migrant detention in Canada and to consider how they might work towards the abolitionist work of dismantling the system and building alternatives in its place.1 Students worked with a migrant-led abolitionist organization in Toronto and learned how to engage in collective, community-based advocacy work. Our project provided an introductory opportunity to consider some aspects of the injustice brought about by the institution, practice, and procedures of migrant detention in Canada and beyond. In our own distinct voices, we offer a three-dimensional parallax view of the "Detention Review Observation Project," from our respective social locations. In dialogue with other scholars experimenting with abolitionist pedagogical possibility, we elaborate on the project, its abolitionist theoretical underpinnings, its failures, successes and lessons
Citizenship · Criminology · Economic Justice · Immigration · Immigration detention · Injustice · Multiculturalism · Mythology · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Work (physics · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Engineering · History · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |