List of Figures . . ix Acknowledgments . . x 1 Introduction: Outlining the Problem - The Confluence of Mental Health, Criminal Justice, and Immigration in the Authorization of Deportation . . 1 2 The Necessity of an Attention to Colonization: An Addition to Mental Health Literature . . 18 3 The Canadian Forensic Mental Health System: An Overview . . 43 4 Conceptualizing the Violence of Deportation at the Confluence of Criminal Justice, Mental Health, and Immigration Systems . . 55 5 Colonial Continuities and Colonial Technologies of Difference . . 83 6 A Postcolonial Document Analysis of Confluence . . 113 7 Historical Data - Archival Artifacts: Deportation and the Enforcement of Undesirability . . 124 8 Case Studies - The Appeals Division of the IRB: Stories of Resistance . . 146 9 Confluence: The Untreatable, the Unrehabilitatable, and the Undeserving Alien . . 157 10 Conclusion: (Re)Producing (Neo)Colonial Relations of Authority and Racial and Eugenic Systems of Violence . . 227 Appendix: Correspondence from Citizenship and Immigration Canada Regarding the Identification of People by the CBSA for Removal/Deportation . . 232 Notes . . 234 References . . 239 Index . . 253