STEPHANIE J. SILVERMAN Bora Laskin National Fellow in Human Rights Research SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Ottawa Adjunct Professor of Ethics, Society, and Law, Trinity College, Toronto [email protected] +1(647)778-8787 Citizenship: Canadian _____________________________________________________________________________ Education D. Phil in Political Theory Department of Politics and International Relations, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford 2007 – 2013 Full fees and maintenance grant from the Commonwealth Association Doctoral Thesis Title: The Normative Ethics of Immigration Detention in Liberal States Supervisors: Bridget Anderson and Matthew J. Gibney Examiners: Joseph H. Carens and Cathryn Costello Abstract: This thesis critiques the ethical and political propriety of practicing detention in the United Kingdom. Using a combination of normative theory, migration studies, and public policy studies, the thesis argues that a potential solution for combating the practical problems associated with growing, worsening detention systems as well as the moral dilemma of incarcerating non-citizens based on fear of absconding would be to open borders and eliminate immigration control. Given the reality of the sovereign right to control immigration, however, the thesis concedes that the more feasible normative answer is liberal states’ adoption of a new framework of minimum standards of treatment while simultaneously pressing for open borders as the long-term ethical goal. Master of Arts in Political Science (High Distinction) York University 2005 – 2006 Certificate in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies Centre for Refugee Studies, York University 2005 – 2006 Honours Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and World Literature University of Toronto (High Distinction) 2001 - 2005 _____________________________________________________________________________ Academic Positions Social Sciences and Human Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Research Fellow Project title: The Opportunities and Challenges of Alternatives to Immigration Detention Graduate School of Political and International Affairs, University of Ottawa 2015 – 2018, including one-year maternity leave 2 Bora Laskin National Fellow in Human Rights Research Graduate School of Political and International Affairs, University of Ottawa 2015 – 2018, including one-year maternity leave Adjunct Professor Ethics, Society, and Law Program, Trinity College, Toronto 2015 - ongoing Research Associate Detention and Asylum Research Cluster, Refugee Research Network, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University 2012 – 2015 Postdoctoral Research Fellow Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime, and Security, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University 2013 – 2014 _____________________________________________________________________________ Academic Publications Peer-reviewed Articles and Book Chapters (pending decision) The Absconding Justification: Unearthing and Challenging the Key Motivation for Immigration Detention, Law and Social Inquiry (2016) ‘Imposter-Children’ in the UK Refugee Status Determination Process, Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees Vol. 34 No. 2, pp. 30 – 39 (2016) Detention-as-Spectacle, International Political Sociology, Advance Access Online published 22 September, with Cetta Mainwaring (2016) Cracks Where the Light Gets in: Recent Legal Breakthroughs in Detention and Crimmigration in Canada, Metropolitics, Special Issue: This Is Not Where It Ends, published 07 December, with Petra Molnar (2016) Troubling the Fields: Choice, Consent, and Coercion in the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program, International Migration Vol. 54 No. 5, pp. 91 – 104, with Amrita Hari (2016) Everyday Injustices: Barriers to Access to Justice for Immigration Detainees in Canada, Refugee Survey Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 109-127, with Petra Molnar (2016) The Difference That Detention Makes: Reconceptualising the Boundaries of the Normative Debate on Immigration Control, in Emerging Trends in the Ethics of Immigration, edited by Alex Sager (London: Rowan and Littlefield) 3 (2016) Mothers Versus Texas: Ethical Problems With Local ‘Attrition Through Enforcement’ Ordinances In The United States, The Critique: Who is My Neighbour? published 15 January (2015) Understanding Immigration Detention and Its Human Impact, with Amy Nethery, in Immigration Detention: The Migration of a Policy, in Immigration Detention: The Migration of a Policy and its Human Impact. (Abingdon: Routledge) Ed. Amy Nethery and Stephanie Silverman (2014) In the Wake of Irregular Arrivals: Changes to the Canadian Immigration Detention System, Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 27 – 34 (2014) Detaining Immigrants and Asylum Seekers: A Normative Introduction, The Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Vol. 17, No. 5, pp. 600 - 617 (2014) Internment in the United Kingdom During the Twentieth Century and Its Links to the Evolution of Immigration Detention, International Journal of Criminology and Sociology, Vol. 3, pp. 168 – 174 (2012) ‘Regrettable but Necessary’? The Rise of the UK Immigration Detention Estate and its Opposition, Politics & Policy Vol. 40, No. 6, pp. 1131 – 115 (2012) Why Immigration Detention is Unique, with Evelyne Massa, in Population, Space and Place, Vol. 18, No. 6, pp. 677 – 686 Edited Book and Special Journal Issues (2015; 2017 paperback edition) Immigration Detention: The Migration of a Policy and its Human Impact. (Abingdon: Routledge), co-edited with Amy Nethery Reviewed in: Border Criminologies; Crimmigration.com; Global Justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric; Journal of Refugee Law; The London School of Economics Book Review; Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees (2012) Immigration Detention, Special Issue of Population, Space and Place Vol. 18, No. 6, co-edited with Evelyne Massa Refereed Working Papers (2016) Briefing: Immigration Detention in the UK, in Policy Briefings, edited by Madeleine Sumption (Oxford: Migration Observatory, also 2010, 2012) (2016) Ending the Routine Use of Immigration Detention: The Moral Argument for Alternatives in the United States and Beyond, CARFMS/ACERMF Working Paper No 2016/1, pp. 1 - 30 (Ryerson University: The Canadian Association of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies), with Ben Lewis 4 (2015) Unshackled Discretion: Barriers to Procedural Justice in the Canadian Immigration Detention System, Detention and Asylum Research Cluster Working Paper No 1, pp. 1 - 28 (Toronto: Refugee Research Network), with Petra Molnar (2013) Detention in Canada, in Detention and Asylum Research Cluster Papers, Edited by Jennifer Hyndman, Delphine Nakache (Toronto: Refugee Research Network) (2013) Key Academic Research on Detention and Asylum Detention and Asylum Research Cluster Papers, Edited by Jennifer Hyndman, Delphine Nakache (Toronto: Refugee Research Network) (2012) Return to the Isle of Man: The Implications of Internment for Understanding Immigration Detention in the UK, COMPAS Working Paper No 12 – 102, edited by Ali Rogers (Oxford: COMPAS) (2010) Immigration Detention in America: A History of its Expansion and a Study of its Significance, COMPAS Working Paper No 10 – 80, edited by Ali Rogers (Oxford: Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society) Reviews (2015) Tom Wong, Rights, Deportation, and Detention in the Age of Immigration Control, Border Criminologies, published online January (2014) Tings Chak, Undocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention, Transnational Social Review, Vol. 5, No. 3. (2013) Dominique Moran, Nick Gill, and Deirdre Conlon, editors, Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention, Social and Cultural Geography, Vol. 16, No 7 (2012) Alexandra Hall, Border Watch, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 46, No. 4 (2011) Anne McNevin, Contesting Citizenship: Irregular Migrants and New Frontiers of the Political, Journal of Refugee Studies, Vol. 25, No. 2 (2010) Ethan B. Kapstein, and Joel H. Rosenthal, editors, Ethics and International Relations, Political Studies Review Vol. 10, No. 2 _____________________________________________________________________________ Other Publications (2016) Rejecting ‘Nationality Swapping’ and ‘Imposter-Children’ in Refugee Politics, The New West: The Western Political Science Association Blog, published online 19 November. (2016) We Must Not Close the Doors to Spontaneously Arriving Asylum Seekers, Centre for International Policy Studies Blog, published online 08 November 5 (2016) The Difference that Immigration Detention Makes, Rowman & Littlefield International Blog, published online 12 October (2016) Research Findings from Immigration Detention: Arguments for Increasing Access to Justice, CARFMS / ACERMF Blog, with Petra Molnar, published online 15 August (2016) Excluded from Justice? Immigration Detainees in Canada, Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights Blog, with Petra Molnar, published online 04 April (2015) What Are ‘Hotspots’? The Inevitable Rise of Detention in the Quest for Asylum Solutions in the EU, Centre for International Policy Studies Blog, published online 16 October (2015) The Charter Strikes Back: A Step Forward for Refugee Rights in Canada, Centre for International Policy Studies Blog, published online 30 July (2015) UK immigration detention: What sort of reform, and when?, The London School of Economics and Political Science British Politics and Policy Blog, published online 15 April (2013) Questions over alternatives to detention programmes, Forced