Mental Health Impacts of Internment on Japanese Canadians: Historical Intersections of Systemic Racism and Psychiatric Care

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dc.contributor.authorHaisell, Camille
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-26T23:21:54Z
dc.date.available2019-04-26T23:21:54Z
dc.date.copyright2019en_US
dc.date.issued2019-04-26
dc.description.abstractThis research focuses on Japanese Canadians’ experiences in Canadian psychiatric hospitals in the context of WWII dispossession and internment. My research project is based on archival material digitized in the summer of 2017 in the BC Archives by myself and three other members of the Provincial Records cluster of the Landscapes of Injustice research collective. My project analyzes patient case files from the Riverview and Essondale psychiatric institutions in BC and investigates the effects of the dispossession and internment of Japanese Canadians during WWII on their mental health. Specifically, I examine how abrupt separation from families, forced removal from home, and racist/exclusionary societal and governmental actions manifested within the mental wellbeing of Japanese Canadians and how Japanese Canadian patients related their experiences of dispossession and internment to their mental states. Numerous Japanese Canadians were admitted near the time of dispossession and internment, and many files explicitly connect the patient’s condition with these upheavals. Moreover, correspondence between the British Columbia Security Commission (the corporate body responsible for the relocation and internment of Japanese Canadians), hospital staff, and patients’ families all provide valuable information on the role of the BCSC in patients’ wellbeing and its role within the hospital system at the time. This research is both situated within the larger transnational historical contexts of global migration, citizenship, racism, and health, as well as within the ultra-local, individual level patient histories of Japanese Canadians. This is a valuable research avenue as it contributes to an ongoing and much needed conversation on mental health, highlighting the serious effects that Canada’s policies of systemic racism can have on a population’s mental well-being.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelUndergraduateen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipJCURA Dr. Jordan Stanger-Rossen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/10767
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJCURAen_US
dc.subjectMental Healthen_US
dc.subjectSystemic Racismen_US
dc.subjectInternmenten_US
dc.subjectCanadaen_US
dc.subjectHistoryen_US
dc.titleMental Health Impacts of Internment on Japanese Canadians: Historical Intersections of Systemic Racism and Psychiatric Careen_US
dc.typePosteren_US

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