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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26.02.2018 , in ((Politics, Sans-Papiers))
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Stefanie Kurt
… 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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23.02.2018 , in ((Politics, Sans-Papiers))
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Didier Leyvraz
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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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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