Title: Conceptualizing the Violence of Deportation at the Confluence of Criminal Justice, Mental Health, and Immigration Systems
Abstract: In this chapter, a conceptualization of violence is suggested, capable of engaging with the complexity of historical, contemporary, and seemingly separate issues of violence within the construction, legitimization, and authorization of deportation for those identified with mental health issues in Canada. In order to recognize the historical violence embedded in contemporary practices and technologies or the violence institutionalized within professional discourses, within law, and governing policies, we must see the confluence of violence as an interdependent process. A recognition of the violence of abuse, war, sexual violence, collective violence, and state violence must also acknowledge the violence that is social, political, and economic, while appreciating the violence within the institutions and laws that through their contributing professions and knowledge authorities, (re)lay the groundwork for violent means to achieve violent ends. This must then also consider the practices and technologies that permit violence to continue while resisting inquiry and transformation. In order to achieve such a conceptualization, I convene contributions from theorists on violence that have attempted to describe the nuances, tensions, and complexities of violence.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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