Accessing information on immigration detention in Canada: towards carceral transparency to reduce social harm
This chapter examines how the lack of detailed, publicly available information about immigration detention – together with the opacity of the institutions and agencies responsible for detention in Canada – function as sources of social harm. The discussion is situated within the context of what we c...
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| Tipo de documento: | Print Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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2025
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Immigration detention and social harm
Año: 2025, Páginas: 219-236 |
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| Sumario: | This chapter examines how the lack of detailed, publicly available information about immigration detention – together with the opacity of the institutions and agencies responsible for detention in Canada – function as sources of social harm. The discussion is situated within the context of what we call a “crisis of transparency” in Canada in relation to accessing carceral sites of detention and information about them. We critically explore the possible role that greater transparency in information about detention and the institutions and agencies responsible for detention can play in reducing social harm and, ultimately, working towards its abolition. The chapter proceeds from the idea that without detailed, publicly available qualitative and quantitative data about immigration detention, it is more challenging to advocate for detained (and detainable) people and their families and communities, push for “evidence-based” policymaking, and argue towards the end of immigration detention. We consider the utility of access to information requests as a method of collecting data about immigration detention in Canada that also contributes to greater transparency and less institutional opacity as a means of reducing social harm. While acknowledging that increased transparency and institutional openness is not a panacea, we argue that it is an important part of humanising the lives lived in detention and making them grievable. |
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| Notas: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 233-236 |
| ISBN: | 9781032441528 |
