scholarly journals Evaluating Ontario immigration detention centres through the lens of non-governmental organizations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharyne Williams
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Immigration Detention ◽  
Detention Centre ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Greater Toronto Area ◽  
It Impacts ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Background Content

This Masters Research Paper provides a critical analysis of the behavioural practices of immigration detention centres and how that affects the abilities of NGOs to support immigration detainees. This paper aims to identify the covert racism that is embedded within immigration detention centres in Canada, exploring how racialized detainees are susceptible to longer detention periods and mal-treatment due to increasing securitization. There will be focus on Ontario immigration detention centres in particular since many of Canada’s asylum claims and detention processes occur in Toronto and the greater Toronto area. This research fills the gap in directly addressing the impacts of racist practices of detention and how it impacts detainees’ ability to seek proper legal aid and interferes with NGOs abilities to aid detainees through their detention process. The methodology used begins with a theoretical framework using Critical Race Theory and background content on immigration detention centres, while drawing out the process of the criminalization of refugees. For this study there were one-on-on interviews conducted with 3 participants who are NGO representatives. Key words: immigration detention centre, detainees, national security, criminalization

scholarly journals Evaluating Ontario immigration detention centres through the lens of non-governmental organizations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharyne Williams
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Immigration Detention ◽  
Detention Centre ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Greater Toronto Area ◽  
It Impacts ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Background Content

This Masters Research Paper provides a critical analysis of the behavioural practices of immigration detention centres and how that affects the abilities of NGOs to support immigration detainees. This paper aims to identify the covert racism that is embedded within immigration detention centres in Canada, exploring how racialized detainees are susceptible to longer detention periods and mal-treatment due to increasing securitization. There will be focus on Ontario immigration detention centres in particular since many of Canada’s asylum claims and detention processes occur in Toronto and the greater Toronto area. This research fills the gap in directly addressing the impacts of racist practices of detention and how it impacts detainees’ ability to seek proper legal aid and interferes with NGOs abilities to aid detainees through their detention process. The methodology used begins with a theoretical framework using Critical Race Theory and background content on immigration detention centres, while drawing out the process of the criminalization of refugees. For this study there were one-on-on interviews conducted with 3 participants who are NGO representatives. Key words: immigration detention centre, detainees, national security, criminalization

Diversity Dissonance as an Implication of One School’s Relocation and Reintegration Initiative

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 499-529
Author(s):  
Deena Khalil ◽  
Elizabeth Brown
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Parent Survey ◽  
Student Demographics ◽  
School Demographics ◽  
Hidden Patterns ◽  
The Right ◽  
Whiteness As Property

Purpose: This article describes one charter school’s ‘diversity’ initiative—a relocation to a racially and socioeconomically diverse site—intended to reintegrate minoritized students displaced by gentrification. Research Design: We employ Critical Race Quantitative Intersectionality to frame the descriptive analyses of student enrollment, city census, and parent survey data that narrates the resulting student demographics after a school’s relocation. Our goal in utilizing an anti-racist framework rooted in Critical Race Theory is to a) quantify the racist material impact of “race-neutral” reform through intersectional data mining, b) disrupt the notion of letting “numbers speak for themselves” without critical analysis, and c) taking a transdisciplinary perspective to reveal the hidden patterns of whiteness under the guise of diversity. Findings: Our findings highlight the limits of a school’s agency to implement ‘diversity’ policies aimed at reintegrating minoritized students displaced from opportunity. While the relocation racially diversified the student population, the policy failed to reintegrate the district’s historically minoritized population. This exclusion both limited who had the right to use and enjoy the school and reinforced the school’s status and reputation, thus cementing its whiteness as property. Implications: We conceptualize diversity dissonance as a framework that challenges the unary ahistorical criteria that describe current school demographics, and calls for leaders and policymakers to problematize how the construct of diversity is interpreted when considering minoritized students’ access to programs and schools. Diversity dissonance situates diversity from solely an inclusive rhetoric to an exclusionary one, where limited access reinforces status—mimicking rather than juxtaposing whiteness.

The 2018 Agreement to Prevent Unregulated High Seas Fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean: A Critical Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentin J. Schatz ◽  
Alexander Proelss ◽  
Nengye Liu
Keyword(s):  
Arctic Ocean ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Specific Area ◽  
Central Arctic Ocean ◽  
Precautionary Approach ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Conservation And Management ◽  
High Seas

Abstract Following almost ten years of negotiations, the Agreement to Prevent Unregulated High Seas Fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean (CAOF Agreement) was concluded on 3 October 2018 in Ilulissat, Greenland. The CAOF Agreement is the first regional fisheries agreement adopted prior to the initiation of fishing in a specific area, and it has already been lauded as a science-based measure and a manifestation of the precautionary approach by representatives of States and Non-Governmental Organizations. This article provides a critical analysis of the content of the CAOF Agreement. It gives an overview of the negotiations which led to the conclusion of the CAOF Agreement and discusses its spatial and substantive scope. Particular attention is paid to the extent that the CAOF Agreement adopts a precautionary approach to conservation and management of high seas fisheries, and to the issue of participation in this regional fisheries treaty.

scholarly journals Colonial Exceptionalism: Post-colonial Scholarship and Race in Czech and Slovak Historiography

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-187
Author(s):  
Filip Herza
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial Theory ◽  
South Eastern Europe ◽  
Blind Spots

AbstractIn spite of recent calls for the decolonisation of Czech and Slovak academia, there is still relatively little reflection of post-colonial theory in either Czech or Slovak historiography or related disciplines, including ethnology and Slavic studies. In the following essay I summarise the local discussion of coloniality and colonialism that has been going on since at least the end of the 2000s, while pointing out its conceptual limits and blind spots; namely the persistence of ‘colonial exceptionalism’ and the lack of understanding and use of race as an analytical tool. In dialogue with critical race theory as well as recent literature that deals with comparable ‘non-colonial’ or ‘marginal-colonial’ contexts such as South-Eastern Europe, Poland and the Nordic countries, I discuss how the local debates relating to colonial history as well as the post-colonial / post-socialist present of both countries would benefit from embracing the concept of ‘colonial exceptionalism’ and from including concepts of race and ‘whiteness’ as important tools of a critical analysis.

scholarly journals A CRITICAL ANALYSIS ON THE LAW’S ABILITY TO ERADICATE RACISM IN (POST) APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akhona Boloko
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
The Government

It has been over two decades since apartheid, which was declared a crime against humanity, ended. A Truth and Reconciliation Commission (hereafter TRC) was established in 1995 with the hopes of, amongst other things, promoting national unity and reconciliation.1 Whilst the TRC received many criticisms, it was also praised for promoting national unity and reconciliation. However recent social media posts which were seen as racist have shattered the picture of a reconciled nation free from racism.2 The government’s response to these manifestations of racism is of particular interest in this article. The government wants to enact legislation to criminalise racism as a way to not only deter, but to eradicate racism.3 In this article I will be critically analysing the law’s ability to eradicate racism and ultimately argue that while legislation may address individual discriminatory acts, it fails to address racism as a structural power system. I will do this by firstly determining the success of the TRC in achieving national unity and reconciliation. Secondly, I will briefly analyse post-apartheid South Africa through Antjie Krog’s book ‘A change of tongue’. Lastly, I will critically discuss the need to utilise a Critical Race Theory and African Jurisprudence in post-apartheid South Africa.

Non-governmental organizations as key partners in mental health in Europe

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (01) ◽  
pp. 27-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. E. Baumann
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Mental Health Policy ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Health Action ◽  
Health Action Plan

SummaryThe shift towards a rights-based approach to health which has taken place over the past decade has strengthened the role of civil society and their organizations in raising and claiming the entitlements of different social groups. It has become obvious that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are central to any successful multi-stakeholder partnership, and they have become more recognized as key actors in health policy and programme development and implementation. There is a broad spectrum of NGOs active in the area of mental health in Europe which aim to empower people with mental health problems and their families, give them a voice in health policy development and implementation and in service design and delivery, to raise awareness and fight stigma and discrimination, and foster implementation of obligations set by internationally agreed mental health policy documents. With the endorsement of the Mental Health Action Plan 2013-2020 (20) and the European Mental Health Action Plan (19) stakeholders agree to strengthen capacity of service user and family advocacy groups and to secure their participation as partners in activities for mental health promotion, disorder prevention and improving mental health services.

Challenges to immigrant associations and NGOs in contemporary Greece

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 342-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Apostolos G. Papadopoulos ◽  
Christos Chalkias ◽  
Loukia-Maria Fratsea
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
Geographical Range ◽  
Legal Form ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Migrant Integration ◽  
Concentration Patterns

The paper explores the challenges faced today, in a context of severe economic crisis, by immigrant associations (ΙΜΑs) and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Greece. The data analysed here was collected between October 2009 and February 2010 and incorporates references to all recorded migration-related social actors operating in Greece. The paper takes into account such indicators as legal form, objectives, financial capacity and geographical range of activity, concluding with a typology of civil society actors dealing with migration issues. This study aims at informing the migration policymaking and migrant integration processes. By a spatial hot-spot clustering of IMAs and NGOs, we also illustrate the concentration patterns of civil society actors in Greece.

STATISTICAL METHODS FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF AIR POLLUTION OF JHANSI CITY, UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
V. S. CHAUHAN ◽  
BHANUMATI SINGH ◽  
SHREE GANESH ◽  
JAMSHED ZAIDI
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Ambient Air ◽  
Ambient Air Pollution ◽  
Base Line ◽  
Multivariate Statistical ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The Status

Studies on air pollution in large cities of India showed that ambient air pollution concentrations are at such levels where serious health effects are possible. This paper presents overview on the status of air quality index (AQI) of Jhansi city by using multivariate statistical techniques. This base line data can help governmental and non-governmental organizations for the management of air pollution.

Understanding the Outcomes of Climate Change Campaigns in the Australian Environmental Movement

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Robyn Gulliver ◽  
Kelly S. Fielding ◽  
Winnifred Louis
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Environmental Advocacy ◽  
Personal Support ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Collective Response ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Advocacy Network ◽  
Australian Climate

Climate change is a global problem requiring a collective response. Grassroots advocacy has been an important element in propelling this collective response, often through the mechanism of campaigns. However, it is not clear whether the climate change campaigns organized by the environmental advocacy groups are successful in achieving their goals, nor the degree to which other benefits may accrue to groups who run them. To investigate this further, we report a case study of the Australian climate change advocacy sector. Three methods were used to gather data to inform this case study: content analysis of climate change organizations’ websites, analysis of website text relating to campaign outcomes, and interviews with climate change campaigners. Findings demonstrate that climate change advocacy is diverse and achieving substantial successes such as the development of climate change-related legislation and divestment commitments from a range of organizations. The data also highlights additional benefits of campaigning such as gaining access to political power and increasing groups’ financial and volunteer resources. The successful outcomes of campaigns were influenced by the ability of groups to sustain strong personal support networks, use skills and resources available across the wider environmental advocacy network, and form consensus around shared strategic values. Communicating the successes of climate change advocacy could help mobilize collective action to address climate change. As such, this case study of the Australian climate change movement is relevant for both academics focusing on social movements and collective action and advocacy-focused practitioners, philanthropists, and non-governmental organizations.

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