Workshop Convened by:
Sharry Aiken (Queen’s Law & Cultural Studies),
Lisa Guenther (Queen’s Philosophy & Cultural Studies) and
Stephanie J. Silverman (Trinity College, University of Toronto)
* Registration is closed.
Keynote Live Stream
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*All sessions are held in Robert Sutherland Hall, Room 202, 138 Union St. W., unless otherwise indicated.
THURSDAY MAY 9
08:00 – 08:50 – Breakfast & Registration
08:50 – 09:00 – Land Acknowledgement
09:00 – 11:45 – Walls to Bridges Collective Training Session, with Melissa Alexander, Simone Weil Davis, Rachel Fayter, Denise Edwards (registration closed)
11:45 – 12: 30 – Lunch & Registration
12:30 – 12:35 – Welcome Remarks – Joshua Karton, Associate Dean (Graduate Studies & Research), Queen’s Law and Mayo Moran, Provost, Trinity College, University of Toronto
12:35 – 14:00 – Panel 1: Why Abolitionism in Immigration Detention?
Discussant: Bridget Anderson, University of Bristol
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Sharry Aiken, Queen’s Law |
Detention Abolition in the “Hard” Cases |
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Jessica Evans, Ryerson University |
Crisis, Capital Accumulation and ‘Carceral Keynesianism’ in the Aftermath of the Global Slump |
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Allegra McLeod, Georgetown University via ZOOM |
No One Is Illegal, Not One More, and Abolish ICE: Movements to End Border Imperialism |
14:00 –15:15 – Panel 2: Epistemologies of Abolitionism
Discussant: Simone Weil Davis, Ethics, Society and Law Program, Trinity College in the University of Toronto
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Gillian Balfour, Trent University |
Documenting Detention: Challenges and Assumptions of Privilege and Precarity in Academic Research |
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Dylan Rodríguez, University of California – Riverside via ZOOM |
‘Mass Incarceration’ is a Useless Term: Race, Domestic War, and the Long Carceral Half-Century |
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Nandita Sharma, University of Hawai'i Manoa |
States and Human Immobilization: Bridging the Conceptual Separation of Slavery, Immigration Controls, and Mass Incarceration |
15:15 – 15:30 – Coffee Break
15:30– 17: 00 – Panel 3: Ethical and Legal Imperatives for a World Without Immigration Detention
Discussant: Christina Clark-Kazak, University of Ottawa
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César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, University of Denver Sturm College of Law |
Migrating to Prison: Immigration in the Era of Mass Incarceration |
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José Jorge Mendoza, University of Massachusetts – Lowell via ZOOM |
Abolish ICE |
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Alexander Sager, University Studies and Philosophy, Portland State University via ZOOM |
Immigrant Detention and the Moral Logic of Abolitionism |
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Stephanie J. Silverman, Trinity College in the University of Toronto |
"Then I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house in.” Three cautionary tales to test the argument for Canadian detention abolitionism |
17:30 – 19:00 – Keynote Addresses with
Jonathan Simon, Adrian A. Kragen Professor of Law and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California – Berkeley: “Four Myths of Punitive Immigration Policies: Sovereignty, Discipline, Eugenics, and Broken Windows”,
Harsha Walia, Activist, Researcher and Author of Undoing Border Imperialism: “Migrants are not Criminals: Challenging Movement Carceral Logics that Foreclose Solidarity” and
Stephanie J. Silverman (Chair), Trinity College, University of Toronto:
(Public Event/Advance Registration Required)
Location: Robert Sutherland Hall, Room 202
19:30 – Workshop Dinner, by invitation
FRIDAY MAY 10
08:00 – 09:00 – Registration & Breakfast
09:00-09:05 – Welcome Remarks: Christine Sypnowich, Department Head, Philosophy, Queen’s;
09:05 – 10:35 – Panel 4: Canadian Reforms and the Lingering Penal Questions
Discussant: Lisa Kerr, Queen’s University, Faculty of Law
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Siena Anstis and Jared Will, Immigration & Refugee Lawyers |
The Uncooperative Migrant: The Legality of Coercive Detention |
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Harry Critchley, Burnside Prison Education Program & Coady Institute (Nova Scotia) & M’Bai Babou Jobe, former detainee and public advocate via ZOOM |
“You Are the Author of Your Own Detention”: Anti-Black Racism and the Institutional Epistemology of Ignorance in Canadian Immigration Detention Review Hearings |
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Louis-Philippe Jannard, Université du Québec à Montréal |
Immigration Detention in Canada: A Socio-legal Study on the Engendering of Law |
10:35 – 10:50 – Coffee Break
10:50 – 12:30 – Concurrent Panels
Panel 5: A Wider Lens on the Impacts of Detention on Women, Children, & Others
Discussant: Hon. Kim Pate, Senator
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Salina Abji, Carleton University |
Detention Avoidance or Detention Abolition? Analyzing the Politics of Immigration Detention for Pregnant Women and Vulnerable Groups |
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Marlené Mercado, University of California - Davis |
Femme Technologies as Tools of Subversion and Resistance within Mexican (Im)migrant Womxn Digital Narratives |
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Sarah Turnbull, Birkbeck, University of London |
Vulnerability, Immigration Detention, and (Penal) Reform |
Panel 6: The Framework of Abolition, Room 211, Macdonald Hall, 128 Union St. W
Discussant: Lisa Guenther, Queen's University
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Souheil Benslimane, Criminalization and Punishment Education Project |
Carceral Expansion and Resistance in Canada (co-authored with Justin Piché, University of Ottawa) |
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Sarah Ashford Hart, University of California, Davis |
Performance Practice-as-research on Mobility and Enclosure: facilitating affective spaces of creative expression with detained immigrants |
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David Moffette, University of Ottawa |
Moving the fight upstream: Abolitionist responses to immigration policing |
12:30 – 13:00 – Lunch
13: 00 – 14:30 – Panel 7: Monitoring, Community, and Interpersonal Impacts
Discussant: Stephanie J Silverman, Trinity College in the University of Toronto
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Susila Gurusami, University of Toronto via ZOOM |
Carceral Migration: the Sociologies of Race, Space, and Punishment |
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Petra Molnar, Immigration and Refugee Lawyer |
Artificial Intelligence in Migrant Monitoring: Techno-Solutionism and the Impacts on Human Rights |
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Nicole Myers, Queen’s University |
Becoming someone’s jailer: Transforming personal relationships in the bail process |
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Marlene Nava Ramos, City University of New York |
The Infrastructure of Immigration Detention and Expansion of Electronic Monitoring in the Era of Carceral Reforms |
14:30 – 14:45 – Coffee Break
14: 45 – 16:15 – Panel 8: Learning from the Recent Past: Reducing or Eliminating Detention in Canada
Discussants: Nasrin Azar, Refugee Law Office & Nandita Sharma, University of Hawai'i Manoa
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Roula Eatrides, Deputy Chairperson of the Refugee Protection Division, IRB; Aviva Basman, Assistant Deputy Chairperson, IRB |
Reforms at the IRB |
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Lisa Guenther, Queen's University |
No Prisons on Stolen Land: Abolition and Decolonization as Interconnected Struggles |
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Janet Cleveland, McGill University; Michaela Beder, Psychiatry, University of Toronto; Hanna Gros, International Human Rights Program, University of Toronto Faculty of Law; Rachel Kronick, McGill University |
Advocacy against immigration detention in Canada: comparing strategies of change |
16:15 – 16:30 - Closing with Workshop Organizers