Jessica Templeman

My research broadly unpacks the processes unfolding across the immigration and criminal system that contribute to the exclusion and expulsion of migrants from Canada. My doctoral work considered how knowledge of criminal inadmissibility impacted decision making on migrant sentence. It revealed how the immigration and criminal systems in Canada function in tandem to support the criminalization and deportation of racialized migrants specifically. My postdoctoral work now investigates the various types of knowledge, materials, and actors that inform decision making on criminal inadmissibility in the immigration system.

SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, September 2023 – September 2025

Contract Faculty, York University, 2022 – Present 

Books

1. Templeman, Jessica (Proposal accepted, March 2024). Deciding to Deport. UBC Press. 

Peer Reviewed Contributions 

1. Templeman, Jessica (in preparation). “Race Thinking, Sentencing, and Deportation: Black Jamaican Migrants”. Social and Legal Studies.
2. Macklin, Audrey & Templeman, Jessica (Forthcoming, accepted). “Canada: Past, Present and Possible Futures of the Settler Society Model of Migration Law”. The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Immigration Law. 
3. Templeman, Jessica (Revise and Resubmit, November 2023). “Sentencing Migrants: Jurisdictional Contests and the Governance of Removal”. Canadian Journal of Law and Society.
4. Templeman, Jessica (March 2024). “Discretionary Decisions in Immigration: Temporary Resident Permits for “Trafficking Victims”. In Katrin Roots, Ann De Shalit & Emily Van Der Meulen (eds.) Trafficking Harms: Critical Perspectives on Human Trafficking in Canada. Fernwood Publishers. 
5. Templeman, Jessica (August 2023). Deciding to Deport: Considering Collateral Immigration Consequences in Ontario Based Courts (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). York University.
6. Pratt, Anna & Templeman, Jessica (December 2018). “Jurisdiction, Sovereignties, and Akwesasne: Shiprider and the Re-Crafting of Canada-U.S. Cross-Border Maritime Law Enforcement.” Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 33.3. 

Media Articles and Newsletters

1. Templeman, Jessica (26 May 2022). “Punishment vs. deportation: What can we learn from the case of the truck driver in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash”. The Conversation. 
2. Templeman, Jessica. (2021). “Race and Criminal Inadmissibility: A Brief Introduction”. ImmQuest. 17(7). 
3. Templeman, Jessica (2019). “Conceptualizing the Intersections of Immigration and Criminal Justice”. ImmQuest. 15(7). 
4. Templeman, Jessica (September 2014). “Sentencing Migrants: A Guide to Criminal Inadmissibility in Canada”. ImmQuest, 10.9. 
5. Templeman, Jessica (23 April 2014). “Dancing in a Dangerous Time: Canada’s Treatment of Foreign Strippers”. Border Criminologies, Oxford Centre of Criminology, Oxford University.

Reports and Policy Briefs 

1. Roots, Katrin, De Shalit, Ann, Templeman, Jessica, van der Meulen, Emily, & Collrin, Bridget (15 January 2024). “Human Trafficking or Migrant Labour Exploitation? Bridging the Knowledge Gap”. SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant, Final Report. 
2. Bellissimo, Mario D., Anderson, Keely, & Templeman, Jessica (2021). “Comment on the proposed Regulations amending section 38 and related provisions”. Submitted to the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration.