Asylum-seeking children’s experiences of detention in Canada: A qualitative study.

Kronick, Rachel; Rousseau, Cécile; Cleveland, Janet

doi:10.1037/ort0000061

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“…Our studies have shown that detention negatively impacts the mental health of both adults (Cleveland & Rousseau, 2013) and children (Kronick et al, 2015;Kronick, Rousseau, & Cleveland, 2016;. These findings are consistent with studies conducted in multiple other countries (Bosworth, 2016).…”

Section: Symbolic Violence Disempowerment and Mental Healthsupporting

confidence: 90%

“Do you want to help or go to war?”: Ethical challenges of critical research in immigration detention in Canada

Kronick

Cleveland

Rousseau

2018

J. Soc. Polit. Psych.

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In a time of mass displacement, countries across the globe are seeking to protect borders through coercive methods of deterrence such as immigration detention. In Canada, migrants-including children-may be detained in penal facilities having neither been charged nor convicted of crimes. In this paper we examine how we dealt with the series of ethical dilemmas that emerged while doing research in immigration detention centres in Canada. Using a critical ethnographic approach, we examine the process of our research in the field, seeking to understand what our emotional responses and those of the staff could tell us about detention itself, but also about what is at stake when researchers are faced with the suffering of participants in these spaces of confinement. The findings suggest that field work in immigration detention centres is an emotionally demanding process and that there were several pivotal moments in which our sense of moral and clinical obligations toward distressed detainees, especially children, were in conflict with our role as researchers. We also grapple with how the disciplinary gaze of the detention centre affects researchers entering the space. Given these tensions, we argue, spaces of critical reflection that can consider and contain the strongly evoked emotions are crucial, both for researchers, and perhaps more challengingly, for detention centre employees and gatekeepers as well.

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Section: Symbolic Violence Disempowerment and Mental Healthsupporting

confidence: 90%

“Do you want to help or go to war?”: Ethical challenges of critical research in immigration detention in Canada

Kronick

Cleveland

Rousseau

2018

J. Soc. Polit. Psych.

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“…62 -66 Detention itself undermines parental authority and capacity to respond to their children's needs; this difficulty is complicated by parental mental health problems. 56,67 Although data are limited regarding the effects of a short detention time on the health of children, there is no evidence indicating that any time in detention is safe for children.…”

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“…54 Studies of detained immigrants, primarily from abroad, have found negative physical and emotional symptoms among detained children, 55 -57 and posttraumatic symptoms do not always disappear at the time of release. 56 Young detainees may experience developmental delay 58 and poor psychological adjustment, potentially affecting functioning in school. 59 Qualitative reports about detained unaccompanied immigrant children in the United States found high rates of posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, and other behavioral problems.…”

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confidence: 99%

Detention of Immigrant Children

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This Policy Statement was reaffirmed November 2022. Immigrant children seeking safe haven in the United States, whether arriving unaccompanied or in family units, face a complicated evaluation and legal process from the point of arrival through permanent resettlement in communities. The conditions in which children are detained and the support services that are available to them are of great concern to pediatricians and other advocates for children. In accordance with internationally accepted rights of the child, immigrant and refugee children should be treated with dignity and respect and should not be exposed to conditions that may harm or traumatize them. The Department of Homeland Security facilities do not meet the basic standards for the care of children in residential settings. The recommendations in this statement call for limited exposure of any child to current Department of Homeland Security facilities (ie, Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities) and for longitudinal evaluation of the health consequences of detention of immigrant children in the United States. From the moment children are in the custody of the United States, they deserve health care that meets guideline-based standards, treatment that mitigates harm or traumatization, and services that support their health and well-being. This policy statement also provides specific recommendations regarding postrelease services once a child is released into communities across the country, including a coordinated system that facilitates access to a medical home and consistent access to education, child care, interpretation services, and legal services.

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“…The family spent three years in a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees refugee camp in Jordan and is now in Canada as part of a humanitarian resettlement program (Box 1). [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Fatima is 28, Omar is 32, and Ruya (which means "vision" or "dream" in Arabic) is 4 years old. They have no health or immunization records with them.…”

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