Muslim Canadians

Selby, Jennifer A.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-78232-4_10

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“…Studies show that these communities are subject to high levels of social scrutiny, securitization, and surveillance (e.g., Berns-McGown 2013;Giwa et al 2014;Razack 2007;Sirin and Fine 2007). Academic, government, and media characterizations have stereotyped Somali-Canadians as violent outsiders who needed additional control (Dossa 2008;Jiwani and Al-Rawi 2020;Razack 2004;Selby 2018). Somali-Canadian youth are thus more likely to come to the attention of police and immigration authorities; the Faster Removal of Foreign Criminals Act seals their fates with the "inadmissible" label (Benslimane and Moffette 2019; Silverman and Kaytaz 2020); and the conditions in Somalia make it unlikely that Amir or fellow detainees will be deported in a timely manner, if at all.…”

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Springing Amir

Silverman

2021

Migration and Society

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For a 2016 article on immigration detention in Canada, I co-created a composite case study named Amir. At the end of writing, I left him indefinitely incarcerated. This article provides an opportunity both to suggest more ethical ways to research detention, and to query White scholarly acquiescence to anti-Black racism and the build-up of detention systems. To spring Amir, I slide a series of four, interrelated doors: (1) discretionary release; (2) a writ of habeas corpus; (3) the end of anti-Black, anti-Muslim, and anti-refugee discrimination in Canada; and (4) the abolition of detention. I conclude with a reflection on promising methodological directions leading toward a new horizon of immigrant and racial justice.

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