Ausschaffung + Inhaftierung
Asylum and migration policies seek to steer those who can enter and remain on national territory, but also to curb migrants’ onward mobility. The Dublin Regulation, for instance, was introduced to prevent so-called secondary movements within Europe – and thus, to limit the mobility of ‘unwanted’ migrants. Little attention is
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Social services, organizations offering integration courses and language certificates, and competence centers for integration in Switzerland are facing an increase in migration control tasks generally undertaken by migration authorities. This broadening of responsibilities, referred to as ‘outsourcing’ of migration control and management, manifests through policies that force social services to
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Imagine living in a confined space, without a feeling of being „home“ and being controlled by institutional actors. With this in mind, two filmmakers tackled the theme of encampment. They joined our recent discussion after the first „On the Mov(i)e“ event, sharing their reflections on the conceptualization of encampment and ...
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Civil conflict embroiled El Salvador and Guatemala in the 1980s leading to an exodus of refugees seeking asylum in the United States. These events birthed the sanctuary movement, and later the sanctuary city movement. The second growth of sanctuary cities came in response to Bush’s Post-9/11 era immigration security crackdown.
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When examining how migration laws and policies are implemented, the relation between those written texts and enacted practices becomes of crucial interest. This was highlighted in our collaborative research on contested migration control in the Schengen Area. In the following, we will focus on the Dublin Regulation and its implementation
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