irregular migration
… 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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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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Dear (Swedish Migration Agency), we fully understand that your organization is under immense pressure at the moment. However, we would highly appreciate if you would consider our request. From our perspective, the experiences and practices of migration officials are of vital importance for understanding the preconditions of migration control […]. We thank you for considering our request and look forward to hearing back from you.
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