Crimmigration, imprisonment and racist violence: Narratives of people seeking asylum in Great Britain

Bhatia, Monish

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“…Moreover, changes of culture per se increase migrants’ overall stress ( Bustamante et al, 2018 ) and could therefore lead to insecurity. Furthermore, racist experiences cannot be ruled out ( Bhatia, 2020 ); institutional racism acts as a stressor ( Bhugra, 2000 ) and may result in less experienced safety. In order to find out whether the lower experienced safety is due to cultural misunderstandings, qualitative interviews should be conducted with the patients.…”

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Immigrant Patients Adapt to the Culture of Admission and Experience Less Safety in Forensic Psychiatric Care

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Patients with an immigrant background are overrepresented in forensic psychiatric hospitals. As a result, daily work is impeded by language barriers and cultural differences. Furthermore, general therapy processes have not yet been adapted to this special patient population, and little reliable knowledge is available. All immigrants go through an acculturation process, which is related to their mental well-being. Four acculturation strategies exist: integration, separation, assimilation, and marginalization. The strategy chosen depends on the extent of someone’s orientation toward their country of origin and the country of admission. The current study aimed to expand knowledge of forensic patients with a migration background in Germany by evaluating their self-reported acculturation processes and associated individual and social factors, e.g., the ward climate. Therefore, we studied forensic patients with a migration background from 11 forensic hospitals in Bavaria, Germany. Besides completing the Frankfurter Acculturation Scale (FRACC) and Essen Climate Evaluation Schema (EssenCES), the participants provided information on their clinical and biographical history. We recruited 235 patients with a migration background and found that the participants oriented themselves more toward the culture of admission and less toward the country of origin than the reference sample did. Moreover, the patients experienced significantly less safety on the ward than the forensic reference sample did. A possible explanation for the patients’ orientation is the lack of possibilities to adhere to their cultural traditions. Patients may feel less safe because of their limited knowledge of German and cultural misunderstandings.

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Immigrant Patients Adapt to the Culture of Admission and Experience Less Safety in Forensic Psychiatric Care

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“…One right that is commonly violated is that of freedom of movement. Countries increasingly use detention as standard policy for asylum seekers-including childrenwho are often detained in facilities used for criminal violations (Bhatia, 2020;Bosworth & Vannier, 2020;UNHCR, 2014). In many European countries, asylum seekers are required to reside in designated reception centers for several months.…”

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Social trust among refugees: Using a human rights lens to understand refugee experiences.

Tesfai,

Hynie,

Karim

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Contemporary Immigration: Psychological Perspectives to Address Challenges and Inform Solutions.

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Much of the research on immigration (and chapters in this book [e.g., Sammut et al., Chapter 8]) focuses on host society members, who are citizens with strong legal and political benefits but who nevertheless perceive immigrants as a threat. In contrast, this chapter (see also Pietrantonio et al., Chapter 4 in this volume) looks at the world from the perspective of refugees, who often are in a precarious and unstable legal position and come to distrust those with whom they find themselves having to deal (including smugglers and government authorities). The uncertainty and unpredictability integral to the refugee processes tend to magnify distrust (this links to the discussion of trust by Power & Jindra, Chapter 15 in this volume), particularly among refugees but also with regard to host society members. The authors provide narratives illustrative of this distrust among refugees as they navigate the asylum process and integrate into host societies in both the Global South and

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“…The ambivalent public images of male migrants with a precarious legal status range from them being represented as 'deceptive, dangerous, and too undesirable to live in mainstream society' to being addressed as victims, resulting in emasculating and infantilising treatment within state structures (Griffiths, 2015: 483). These representations lead to equally ambivalent modes of governance: criminalisation and securitisation (Huysmans, 2000;Stumpf, 2006;Gerard and Pickering, 2013;Bhatia, 2020), on the one hand, and humanitarianism (Fassin, 2012;Campesi, 2015), on the other. Here, I will first show how the victimisation of individuals within the asylum regime subjected my interlocutors to a paternalism that gave them little room for manoeuvre and led to forced idleness that was experienced as profoundly emasculating.…”

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Navigating the European Migration Regime

Wyss¹

2022

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EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC- ND Anna Wyss’ survey of the heavily politicised group of male migrants in Europe provides insightful analysis of both masculinity and the European migration crisis. The book tracks men’s repeated attempts to achieve permanent residence status and the successive detentions and deportations they endure. It measures the effects of precarity on their lives and explores the hope and vulnerability they experience.

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Crimmigration, imprisonment and racist violence: Narratives of people seeking asylum in Great Britain

Cited by 34 publications

References 53 publications

Immigrant Patients Adapt to the Culture of Admission and Experience Less Safety in Forensic Psychiatric Care

Immigrant Patients Adapt to the Culture of Admission and Experience Less Safety in Forensic Psychiatric Care

Social trust among refugees: Using a human rights lens to understand refugee experiences.

Navigating the European Migration Regime

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