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Complying with What? Non-Compliance in the UK Immigration Detention

27.02.2018 , in ((Esperienze)) , ((No commenti))

The notion of non-compliance with immigration policy and enforcement is a recurring theme, which regularly comes up both in reviewing government policy and through ethnographic work with men detained in the Verne immigration removal center. Non-compliance is not always the intentional manifestation of personal agency. Instead, in the messy landscape of UK immigration detention it can be another tool of domination. ...

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Immigration Detention in Italy: Between Security and Humanity

22.02.2018 , in ((Esperienze)) , ((No commenti))
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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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Maintaining Distance and Producing Indifference in Swiss Immigration Detention

20.02.2018 , in ((Esperienze)) , ((No commenti))

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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Retour sur la notion de passeur

16.06.2017 , in ((Politica)) , ((No commenti))

La notion de passeur est aujourd’hui négativement connotée: elle renvoie généralement à l’image d’êtres malveillants qui profitent de personnes vulnérables pour s’enrichir à leurs dépens. Il est nécessaire de revenir sur les significations de ce terme dans le contexte actuel afin de déconstruire les idées reçues qui lui sont associées. ...

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Carcerazione amministrativa

29.09.2016 , in ((Cosa si intende per…)) , ((No commenti))

Solitamente, le persone recluse in carcere hanno commesso un crimine o un delitto (pena detentiva) o sono sospettate di averlo commesso (carcere preventivo). Eppure, nelle carceri svizzere si trovano centinaia di persone private della libertà per motivi amministrativi legati esclusivamente alla loro condizione di stranieri. Che cos’è la carcerazione amministrativa? Quando può essere ordinata nei confronti di un migrante? Quali sono le condizioni di detenzione vigenti in Svizzera in materia di carcere amministrativo? ...

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