Challenging the silence around race and racism in Canada’s immigration detention system

Efrat Arbel; Prasanna Balasundaram; Hanna Gros; Nana Yanful

Challenging the silence around race and racism in Canada’s immigration detention system

Efrat Arbel
, Prasanna Balasundaram
, Hanna Gros
, Nana Yanful

Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia

Research output: Comment/debate

Abstract

An absence of race-disaggregated data and the routine normalisation of racial disparities together form a pattern of carceral silencing in Canada's immigration detention centres.

This post is the second in a two-part series on structural racism in Canada’s immigration detention system.

Original language	English
Journal	Border Criminologies, Faculty of Law Blogs, University of Oxford
Publication status	Published - Mar 16 2026

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https://blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-criminologies-blog/blog-post/2026/03/challenging-silence-around-race-and-racism-canadas

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