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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05.12.2017 , in ((Border Criminologies, Experiences))
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Laura Rezzonico
Immigration detention centers are among those “obscured places” where migration is regulated and hidden from view. They are spaces of exclusion and suffering for those detained, and source of uncertainty and frustration for both detainees and staff working there. Access to those sites, as well as to data and information about them, is very restricted. It is precisely for this reason that research inside them – whenever possible and allowed – is worth the pains and difficulties it involves.
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03.07.2017 , in ((Good Practices))
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Sarah Progin-Theuerkauf and Salome Schmid
Am 26. April 2017 entschied das Bundesgericht in einem Grundsatzentscheid zur Dublin-Haft: Die separate Inhaftierung von Mitgliedern einer afghanischen Familie sowie die Fremdplatzierung der betroffenen Kinder hat das in der Europäischen Menschenrechtskonvention (EMRK) garantierte Recht auf Familienleben verletzt. Die Inhaftierung des Ehepaares im Kanton Zug lässt sich zudem laut Bundesgericht nur «knapp» nicht als unmenschliche oder erniedrigende Behandlung gemäss EMRK qualifizieren.
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07.03.2017 , in ((Media, Politics))
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Laure Sandoz
Alors que l’élection de Trump et ses premiers pas à la présidence ont monopolisé l’attention des médias au cours des derniers mois, on pourrait penser qu’il ne se passe plus grand-chose aux frontières de l’Europe. Que reste-t-il de la soi-disant « crise des réfugiés » qui a déchaîné tant de passions entre 2015 et 2016 ? Que s’est-il passé depuis la fin de l’année 2016 aux frontières de l’Europe ?
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