Virtual Reality

Virtual reality offers a powerful vehicle for better understanding lived experiences of immigration detention. Developed through co-participatory methods, the Detention Stories Virtual Reality represents real stories as experienced and narrated by those who have lived it. By centring first-person narration and perspective, virtual reality allows audiences to engage with the spatial, emotional, and temporal realities of detention in immersive ways.

Virtual reality offers a powerful vehicle for better understanding lived experiences of immigration detention. Developed through co-participatory methods, the Detention Stories Virtual Reality represents real stories as experienced and narrated by those who have lived it. By centring first-person narration and perspective, virtual reality allows audiences to engage with the spatial, emotional, and temporal realities of detention in immersive ways.

Virtual reality offers a powerful vehicle for better understanding lived experiences of immigration detention. Developed through co-participatory methods, the Detention Stories Virtual Reality represents real stories as experienced and narrated by those who have lived it. By centring first-person narration and perspective, virtual reality allows audiences to engage with the spatial, emotional, and temporal realities of detention in immersive ways.

This project was generously funded by:

The Killam Accelerator Research Fellowship,

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada,

The Law Foundation of British Columbia. 

Detention Stories

© 2026 Detention Stories

This project was generously funded by:

The Killam Accelerator Research Fellowship,

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada,

The Law Foundation of British Columbia. 

Detention Stories

© 2026 Detention Stories