Detention and immigration: Practices, crimmigration, and norms

Bourbeau, Philippe

doi:10.1093/migration/mnx069

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“…This literature has focused on related processes in North America and Europe (Abrego et al 2017;Barker 2012;Huysmans 2006;Melossi 2003;Menjívar and Kanstroom 2014;Parkin 2013). Studies have explored the different areas in which immigrants and minorities are being criminalised, including police practices (Armenta 2016;Douglas and Sáenz 2013), incarceration (Escobar 2016), detention and the law (Bourbeau 2019;Menjívar and Abrego 2012). Crimmigration also appears in contexts of enhanced emphasis on national security, aimed at countering terrorism (Romero and Zarrugh 2018), and militarising the US-Mexico border (Kil and Menjivar 2006).…”

Section: The Criminalisation Of Migration: a Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nationality-Based Criminalisation of South-South Migration: the Experience of Venezuelan Forced Migrants in Peru

Freier

Pérez

2021

Eur J Crim Policy Res

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This article examines how Venezuelan forced migrants in Peru experience xenophobic discrimination, which has become increasingly linked to their criminalisation as thieves and murderers. Based on 12 months of qualitative fieldwork, including 72 in-depth interviews, five focus groups, and a survey (N116) in five Peruvian cities, we explore how Venezuelans experience, and make sense of, discrimination and criminalisation in everyday life. First, we discuss how criminalisation compares to general xenophobic discrimination, and other types of discrimination experiences. Second, we juxtapose the prevalence of xenophobic discrimination and criminalisation experiences across the five cities of our study, and between public spaces and the workspace. We then move to the qualitative discussion of the criminalisation experience in these different spaces. Fourth, we discuss how Venezuelan migrants perceive this criminalising discrimination as linked to their villanisation in the media and political discourses. Finally, we discuss our findings and make suggestion for further research. The paper contributes to the literature on migrant criminalisation by exploring how criminalisation processes play out in the context of large-scale intraregional forced displacement in the global South. Keywords Criminalisation . Securitisation . South-South migration . Venezuela . Peru "Why are people from your country such thieves?" and I told him [the neighbour] "But, why is that my fault? I am not to blame for that. Now, look, come and see" […] I had taken a screenshot and said to him "look, this man is Peruvian, he killed his neighbour,

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Section: The Criminalisation Of Migration: a Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nationality-Based Criminalisation of South-South Migration: the Experience of Venezuelan Forced Migrants in Peru

Freier

Pérez

2021

Eur J Crim Policy Res

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“…Vanessa Barker’s work (2017, 2018) similarly develops the concept of penal nationalism complementing a rich body of literature concerning the growing use of penal mechanisms to ‘manage’ citizenship (Aas, 2014; Ackerman and Furnam, 2013; Bigo, 2007; Kauffman and Bosworth, 2013; Bourbeau, 2018; Douglas and Saenz, 2013; Golash-Boza, 2015; Stumpf, 2006). Central in Barker’s work is the identification of neoliberalism alongside increased mobility which challenges state sovereignty and the ability of states to maintain robust welfare protections, leading to a “welfare chauvinism … expressed in penal form” (2017: 448).…”

Section: On Penal Nationalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Penal nationalism in the settler colony: On the construction and maintenance of ‘national whiteness’ in settler Canada

Evans

2021

Punishment & Society

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The summer of 2020 was one of unprecedented mass protest and a growing critical awareness around the racist operation of criminal justice systems in North America. Consequently, criminal justice systems have been placed squarely at the forefront of struggles for racial equality and social change. While activists, critical researchers, and legal experts have argued racial justice requires a diversion of communities and resources away from criminal justice systems, the focus in mainstream policy, media, and academic circles has been on reform. In Canada, a focus on reformist responses to this racial violence has been justified through a distorted view of Canada’s criminal justice system. Drawing on the concept of penal nationalism, I argue that Canadian carceral practices must be understood as constitutive of the settler-colonial state and its ideological, material and institutional mooring in racial whiteness as the locus of settler power and sovereignty. To this end, it is not enough to reform specific penal practices, while leaving intact the legitimacy of the criminal justice system in general. What is at stake is the very definition and protection of a national identity, which in the settler colony is predicated on colonial whiteness, Indigenous erasure, and racialized exploitation.

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“…A key feature of the wide‐reaching migration clampdown described above is the increased intertwining of systems of migration and criminal justice over the past 30 years – termed by legal scholars as the ‘crimmigration’ nexus (Stumpf 2006). This intertwining is clear in the tropes about migrant criminality dragged out time and time again in support of punitive policy (Brown 2016; Tosh 2019; Učakar 2020; Zatz and Smith 2012); the use of criminal justice personnel and facilities in the enforcement of immigration law (Armenta 2017a; Bourbeau 2019; Provine et al . 2016); and the particularly stringent legal consequences reserved for non‐citizens with criminal records (Boe 2018; Newstead and Frisso 2013; Tosh 2020).…”

Section: Beyond the ‘Criminalisation’ Of Immigrantsmentioning

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“…Scholarship in the emergent field of ‘border criminology’ argues that punishment is irrevocably changed by contemporary links between crime control and border control, and urges for the expansion of mainstream criminological thought to better understand these changing systems (Aas 2013; Bosworth, Franko and Pickering 2018; Franko 2019). Yet much of the research on criminal‐immigration system connections has focused on the ways in which migrants are increasingly constructed or treated as criminal – whether it be through the classification of immigration violations as criminal convictions (Macías‐Rojas 2016); the engagement of local police in immigration enforcement (Armenta 2017a; Arriaga 2017); or the jails and prisons used for immigration detention (Bourbeau 2019; Hernández 2019). Recently, some have expressed concern that widespread, uncritical use of the term ‘crimmigration’ itself may even further societal perceptions of migrants as criminal (Abrego et al .…”

Section: Beyond the ‘Criminalisation’ Of Immigrantsmentioning

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Beyond the ‘Criminalisation’ of Immigrants: Critical Criminology and the Modern Deportation Regime

Tosh

2021

Howard J Crime Justice

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Despite a long‐standing body of research contradicting stereotypes that link migration with crime, the image of immigrant as criminal has routinely been used to buttress punitive policy across the globe – particularly within the past 30 years. While the United States is the world leader in rates of deportation, recent decades have also seen renewed anti‐immigrant sentiment, punitive immigration enforcement, and increased deportation in migrant‐receiving countries around the world. Expanding on existing scholarship that disentangles the mechanisms through which migrants are affected by processes otherwise reserved for ‘criminals’, this article demonstrates how the concepts and perspectives of critical criminology are vital to a full understanding of the modern deportation regime. Beyond effects on migrants themselves, I argue that the current deportation regime is harmful for all potential subjects of social control, in its uncritical acceptance and implicit reification of broader societal notions of who and what is ‘criminal’.

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Detention and immigration: Practices, crimmigration, and norms

Cited by 15 publications

References 45 publications

Nationality-Based Criminalisation of South-South Migration: the Experience of Venezuelan Forced Migrants in Peru

Nationality-Based Criminalisation of South-South Migration: the Experience of Venezuelan Forced Migrants in Peru

Penal nationalism in the settler colony: On the construction and maintenance of ‘national whiteness’ in settler Canada

Beyond the ‘Criminalisation’ of Immigrants: Critical Criminology and the Modern Deportation Regime

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