Criminalizing “Pro-Immigrant” Initiatives: Reducing the Space of Human Action

Abstract

Criminalizing "Pro-Immigrant" Initiatives: Reducing the Space of Human Action The article addresses the problem of the surveillance, disciplining and criminalization of practices of non-governmental initiatives which offer help to irregular migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in Slovenia and four neighbouring countries. Based on original empirical work-interviews with members of NGOs-it analyses the dynamic of these processes through several stages of the "continuum of criminalization". Five types of crimmigration policies and practices of authorities and other actors were identified which produce cumulative effects and reduce space for both political and human action as well as spontaneity.

Nasilne meje, varnostnizacija in kriminalizacija solidarnosti

“…Omenjene številke kazenskih postopkov so le vrh ledene gore državnega preganjanja prostovoljk, saj preganjanje obsega tudi celoten diskurz sumničenja, diskreditiranja in preprečevanja dostopa do stika z begunkami in begunci (Carrera, Vosyliūtė, Smialowski, Allsopp in Sanchez, 2018;Tazzioli, 2018). Učinka takega nadzora sta uničevanje spontanih odzivov na prihod beguncev in občutek odvečnosti obojih, tako domačinov, ki se solidarizirajo z migranti, kot migrantov (Jalušič, 2019). Z drugimi besedami, države ne le nadzorujejo in ovirajo mobilnost migrantov, temveč vzpostavljajo sovražno okolje tudi za tiste, ki migrante podpirajo (Webber, 2018).…”