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Speaker bio
Dr. Sule Tomkinson is an Associate Professor at the Department of Po litical Science at Université Laval. She is currently visiting Peter A. All ard School of Law and the UBC Centre for Migration Studies. Her expertise i s in administrative justice\, qualitative methodology\, and research ethics . Her research is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Cou ncil\, The Fonds de recherche du Québec\, The Canadian Foundation for Legal Research\, The Quebec Bar Foundation\, and The Department of Justice. She is currently writing her first book\, called “The Quest for Administrative Justice in Canada” where she empirically examines the values considered at the heart of tribunal sector\, specifically who defines and implements them and how.
Event Description:
Freedom of Inform ation (FOI) or Access to Information (ATI) legislation regulates the right to make written requests for government records and aims to advance governm ent transparency. Previous research either questions the effectiveness of F OI/ATI legislation or situates the requests as a means for obtaining inform ation on government operations. This article develops FOI/ATI requests as a transformative qualitative methodology. Using insights of transformative f ramework and John Gaventa’s scholarship on power\, it builds on a power ana lysis based on practice to contribute to a liberatory perspective of public administration. This focus enables researchers to analyze the multiple for ms\, levels\, and spaces of power\, as well as their interactions within pu blic organizations\, including immigration bureaucracies. To provide suppor t for this argument\, the author draws upon her experience with Canada’s AT I regime and requests from the Immigration and Refugee Board. The article f irst documents how ATI requests reveal policy tensions within the Board\, p roviding a behind-the-scenes perspective to otherwise unavailable informati on. This follows by a consideration of successful complaints to the ATI wat chdog regarding timely disclosure of Board records. The article suggests ad opting this methodology offers transformative potential for public administ ration research and education and concludes with recommendations for its su ccessful use.
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