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

Joseph, Ameil J.

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“…This problematic entails a mutually reinforcing relationship between the material violence that is immanent in denial of legal personhood under civil mental health laws and the symbolic violence of psychiatry and the mental health paradigm. It also connects to scholarship and debates about the deployment of medico-legal and psychiatric epistemologies in ways that silence the political resistance and claims of marginalised groups at the intersections of different coercive legal frameworks, such as people in immigration detention (Joseph 2016) and incarcerated people labelled as 'mad Muslim terrorists' (Patel 2014).…”

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Freedom of Opinion and Expression: From the Perspective of Psychosocial Disability and Madness

Beaupert

2018

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Freedom of Opinion and Expression: From the Perspective of Psychosocial Disability and Madness

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“…During the early 1900s in Ontario, it has been uncovered that the Canadian Immigration Department and the Provincial police were profiling people coming across the border from the United States and sending them back for no legitimate reason that was in accordance with the law. In 1915, W. D. Scott (the Superintendent of Immigration at the time) investigated the deportation of 1,135 “hobos, tramps, undesirable aliens” from November 1913 to October 1914 (Joseph, 2015a, p. 137). When conducting that investigation, Scott was concerned about the legitimacy of these deportations (Joseph, 2015a, p. 137).…”

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“…This study reminds us that criminality cannot be separated from racialization. Actually, racialization is deeply connected to criminality historically, as notions of criminality were once believed to be hereditary traits bound to immigrants not from a desirable stock of British citizens (Joseph, 2015a). An essential component of racialization—that is, judging someone based of their appearance—is currently a regular form of policing.…”

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“…Firstly, part of the stereotype of being Black is also being a potential criminal and vice versa. Secondly, as documented as early as 1915, when immigration services collaborated with the Ontario provincial police to deport people of color without the due process of the law, the police have historically attached race to criminality and used these ideologies of criminality to justify racial profiling (Joseph, 2015a). Lyn Lofland has raised and discussed the establishment of order based on appearance in urban cities in the 1973 book, A World of Strangers: Order and Action in Urban Public Space.…”

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Sustaining Systemic Racism Through Psychological Gaslighting: Denials of Racial Profiling and Justifications of Carding by Police Utilizing Local News Media

Tobias

Joseph

2018

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This article examines Police Services and local media discourses on street checks in Hamilton, Ontario, from June 2015 to April 2016 and their usage as a form of psychological abuse known as gaslighting. Despite the widespread coverage that the Hamilton Police Service received as a result of being linked to systemic racist practices, a year later, the Hamilton Police Service was able to avoid being implicated in deliberately conducting racial profiling through strategic tactics in the discourse they relied upon and presented in the media. Through an analysis of 27 local news media articles on the topic of street checks, it is argued that the Police Services and local media discourse enact gaslighting, a form of psychological abuse that is used to manipulate object(s) in order to deceive and undermine the credibility of the target. The psychological effects of gaslighting on people of color included a sense of alienation, disenfranchisement from the community, and distrust toward the police. Through a case study application, it is suggested that gaslighting is part of a systemic, historical process of racism that has been used by the police and government organizations to both illegally target people of color and deny complicity in racial profiling.

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“…They mobilize technologies intended to direct the efficient and appropriate conduct of bodies presumed to act outside the boundaries of normalcy. It is a normalcy informed by sanist scripts, while simultaneously relying on dominant racialized, sexualized, classed, and gendered hierarchies of being (Joseph, 2015b;LeFrançois, 2013b). While students may have acknowledged this regulatory role in relation to interlocking axes of race, gender, sexuality, and class, the trope of benign helper remains far more persistent as they frame madness through medicalized and scientific discourse (see Poole et al, 2012).…”

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Unlearning through Mad Studies: Disruptive pedagogical praxis

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Medical discourse currently dominates as the defining framework for madness in educational praxis. Consequently, ideas rooted in a mental health/illness binary abound in higher learning, both as curriculum content and through institutional procedures that reinforce structures of normalcy. While madness then, is included in university spaces, this inclusion proceeds in ways that continue to pathologize madness and disenfranchise mad people. This paper offers Mad Studies as an alternative entry point for engaging with madness in higher education, arguing centring madness in pedagogical praxis has the potential to interrupt hegemonic ways of knowing, being, and learning. We illustrate how this disruption is facilitated by examining particular aspects of pedagogical praxis mobilized in Mad Studies, including building curriculum alongside mad community, centring madness in course design and student assessment, and the deployment of mad positivity. Ultimately, this approach provides a metacurriculum of unlearning, challenging students to consider how their engagement with madness in the classroom, and beyond, has the potential to disrupt sanist systems of oppression and the normalcy they reconstitute. Mental health/illness discourse currently runs rampant in higher education. Universities are declaring a 'mental health crisis' on campus (Hawkes, 2019; Reid, 2013) and policy, access, and accommodation strategies rest on tactics that respond with notions of risk and liability. At the same time, critical scholars continue to build on a long line of inquiry refuting the mental health/illness binary, and the responses it develops and valourizes (Fernando, 2017; Foucault, 2006; Mills, 2014; Parker, 2014). Yet scholarship resistant to biomedical epistemes is rarely engaged in undergraduate curriculum, and university administrations remain reticent to engage disability justice approaches to distress. Indeed, through this cumulative collective disengagement, students easily pass through programs of study without encountering alternative ways of knowing. Enter Mad Studies.

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

Cited by 14 publications

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Freedom of Opinion and Expression: From the Perspective of Psychosocial Disability and Madness

Freedom of Opinion and Expression: From the Perspective of Psychosocial Disability and Madness

Sustaining Systemic Racism Through Psychological Gaslighting: Denials of Racial Profiling and Justifications of Carding by Police Utilizing Local News Media

Unlearning through Mad Studies: Disruptive pedagogical praxis

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