12.03.2018 , in ((Good Practices))
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Walter Leimgruber
«All inclusive»: An was denken Sie da? An Buffets, die unter der Last der Speisen fast zusammenbrechen, und an Touristinnen und Touristen, die sich den ganzen Tag bedienen, weil alles gratis ist? Oder an ein Schlaraffenland, in dem man nichts tun muss, um seinem Lebensunterhalt zu verdienen, weil alles einfach da ist? Oder an eine Vollkasko-Gesellschaft, die für jede und jeden einen Platz hat, sich um alle kümmert, niemanden abstürzen lässt, sondern ein feinmaschiges Netz sozialer Inklusion knüpft?
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27.02.2018 , in ((Experiences))
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Patrycja Pinkowska
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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22.02.2018 , in ((Experiences))
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Francesca Esposito and Silvia Scirocchi
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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20.02.2018 , in ((Experiences))
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Laura Rezzonico
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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16.02.2018 , in ((Border Criminologies, Experiences))
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Maayan Ravid
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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