… die öffentliche Sicherheit und Ordnung beachtet, wer die Werte der Bundesverfassung respektiert, wer die erforderlichen Sprachkompetenzen nachweist und wer am Wirtschaftsleben oder am Erwerb von Bildung teilnimmt. Bald sind diese Integrationskriterien von den zuständigen Behörden bei der Beurteilung der Integration zu berücksichtigen: auch bei Härtefallgesuchen von «Sans-Papiers»?
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Am 26. Januar 2018 hat die Kommission für Soziale Sicherheit und Gesundheit des Nationalrats eine Motion mit der Empfehlung «Für eine kohärente Gesetzgebung zu Sans-Papiers» eingereicht. Ab kommenden Montag greift diese Blog-Serie gewisse Elemente der Motion auf und diskutiert sie im Kontext von aktuellen wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen.
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Despite the increasing scholarly attention to immigration detention around the globe, relatively little is known about life and the lived experiences of the people inside these sites of confinement. This is particularly true of the perspectives of professionals who provide services in these contexts. What are the lived experiences of people working in Rome’s detention center of Ponte Galeria? What complexities, struggles and contradictions do they encounter when working inside a custodial environment?
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In contrast to many other countries, Switzerland confines most of its immigration detainees in ordinary prisons together with convicted or on remand prisoners – although usually in separated areas. As a consequence, prison officers are those in charge of the confinement and exclusion of migrants. They are constantly confronted with their suffering, which may take the form of bewilderment, anger, or despair, and develop forms of moral detachment to cope with the situation.
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Political discourse and public debate are sites where exclusionary and criminalizing rhetoric about migrants emerges in visible and often explicit forms. A more “mundane” site of analysis is the everyday language of state bureaucracy: Administrative detention, “infiltrators”, and “open detention facility”. Officially, these terms are chosen based on technical or bureaucratic considerations. However, the way these choices are experienced, and their symbolic significance, cannot be ignored: They construct a punitive, criminal aura.
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