%0 Journal Article
%T Perceptions of the Canadian criminal justice system among Nigerians: Evidence from a local Church in Winnipeg, Manitoba
%A Temitope Oriola
%A Charles T. Adeyanju
%J International Journal of Human Sciences
%D 2011
%I International Journal of Human Sciences
%X Diasporic communities are everywhere conceivable in today¡¯s globalizing world. Winnipeg, Manitoba, albeit rather slowly, has not been left out of the increasing diversity of the Canadian population sequel to the surge in flows of ¡°Third World¡± bodies hitherto considered persona non grata in Canada. Dispensing with the concept ¡°Black,¡± this paper investigates the assessment of the police and courts by a sample of Nigerians at a local church in Winnipeg. Participants in this study generally have a favorable view of the police and courts in Winnipeg. Consequently, one fundamental finding of the study is that totalizing, generalizing or homogenizing the experience of Blacks and/or Blackness is theoretically misleading. The paper argues that several studies that purport to investigate ¡°Blacks¡± do not in anyway offer insights into the experiences and voices of newer immigrants or continental Africans.
%K Perceptions
%K (In)Justice
%K Nigerians
%K Canada
%U http://www.insanbilimleri.com/ojs/index.php/uib/article/view/1512