3. How do we unpack profiling?
Many experts and community members have outlined how profiling impacts their communities and most especially their lives.
This section of the toolkit seeks to unpack profiling, explore the issues involved and deepen understanding. This is done through two tracks. First, an analytical unpacking asks the question “Why does profiling happen?” This section summarizes cause, effect, and implications of profiling, as expressed by various stakeholders. The second part undertakes a narrative unpacking where the lived experiences of the profiled, the people in power and other community members are presented. This paints a multi-perspective picture of the phenomenon of profiling itself.
Why does profiling happen?
Three distinct answers to that question emerged from the research done to create this toolkit:
- We are not talking enough
- We are not doing enough
- We do not understand enough
Click to download the full toolkit (PDF) and read about how to unpack profiling in Canada.
Watch the following videos to hear the lived experiences of Jeannette and Pierre, Julie and Antoine, and Will.
Jeannette and Pierre
Julie and Antoine
Will
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