Complying with What? Non-Compliance in the UK Immigration Detention
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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… 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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Last week, Ignazio Cassis became one of the Swiss federal councilors – after having surrendered his Italian passport in the weeks before the election. Simultaneously, in Australia several parliamentarians had to relinquish their seat, because it turned out that they had dual citizenship. Thinking about dual citizenship of elected politicians, four points are to be considered: “awareness” and the “possibility to renounce” where a prohibition for dual citizens to run for office is in force, as well as “loyalty” and “representation”, the basic arguments used when creating such prohibitions.
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