14 Daiva Stasiulis was transferred into Customs and Border Protection Agency custody in Toronto’s Metro West Detention Centre pending removal in accordance with the removal order. In April 2013, he was released from custody on certain bonds and under strict conditions and surveillance. The government has been unsuccessful in its attempt to deport him to India as Indian authorities have found that he is not an Indian national and refused to issue him travel documents.22 Stripped of his Canadian citizenship, Budlakoti has been “left in a vulnerable position whereby his country of birth and residence has withdrawn his citizenship, thereby rendering him stateless” (Hameed, 2013, pp. 3-4). Today, as a stateless person, Budlakoti’s life is full of hardship, mental health issues, uncertainty, and crushing debt incurred from continuous litigation. He has worked for wages intermittently, waiting in some cases six months for work permits, and is ineligible for social assistance. His low educational level, criminal record, statelessness and threat of deportation have made it impossible for him to financially support himself. The government’s insistence that Budlakoti fill out documents to apply for a work permit confers foreignness upon him as only temporary foreign workers need fill out such forms. Similarly, in 2012 Budlakoti’s transfer from the prison where he was serving out his term to the West Detention Centre in Toronto, where he was detained under immigration law, established his foreignness, as such spaces are reserved for non-citizens. Just as citizenship is produced through documental networks, providing access to publicly funded health care, social services and basic democratic and legal rights, a reverse documental and material network has been enrolled to translate an erasure of Budlakoti’s legal and substantive citizenship. A particularly harsh effect of the extinguishment of his citizenship has been the cancellation of Budlakoti’s Ontario Health Insurance Program entitlements, and given his impoverishment, his inability to purchase private insurance. This withholding of public health care also reinforces his production as a non-citizen, whereby he joins “the ranks of an estimated half a million people in Canada [including the undocumented and new immigrants in the first three months of arrival] without access to medical care because of their immigration status” (Bozinoff, Goel, Jones, & Shahid, n.p., 2015). Despite a medical diagnosis that he has PTSD, he is unable to access therapy and health care more generally. In all realms of daily life where he has encountered the impossibility of retaining relationships, supporting himself, maintaining his health, etc., his experience reflects how an individual’s slide 22 As the Applicant’s Record argues in Deepan Budlakoti and Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, “Significantly, the Indian government indicates that the Applicant is not an Indian citizen, a fact which is undisputed by [the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration.] A relevant communication made by India to CBSA on March 18, 2013 regarding its position on the Applicant’s nationality [never communicated to Budlakoti]…was later discovered by the Applicant in September 2013 through a personal information request made by him under the Privacy Act” (Hameed, 2013). Studies in Social Justice, Volume 11, Issue 1, 1-26, 2017