El internamiento de extranjeros: ¿qué dicen los datos? Análisis de los expedientes de internamiento tramitados en la provincia de Barcelona en el año 2015

Beilfuss, Markus González; Vallbé, Joan-Josep; Kalir, Barak

doi:10.14422/mig.i45y2018.003

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“…Lastly, a descriptive analysis of police arrests of foreign nationals immediately after their release from prison is conducted using data from a study carried out by González-Beilfuss et al (2018) in Barcelona in 2015. In this case, we had to analyse information limited to the province of Barcelona because, to our knowledge, neither the police nor the prison administrations register this kind of information.…”

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“…A study by González-Beilfuss et al (2018) sheds some light on this issue. In this study, the researchers reviewed all requests of detention in the CIE made by the police in the province of Barcelona in 2015 (587 requests).…”

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“…Not once was a woman arrested due to the absence of a women's wing at Barcelona's CIE during that period (González-Beilfuss et al, 2018), demonstrating that logistical considerations (the impossibility of requesting the detention of a woman in Barcelona's CIE) also affect border control practices and shape who is – and who is not – affected by them.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Border control within Spanish prisons? Intersections between immigration control and imprisonment at the southern border of Europe

Güerri

2024

Punishment & Society

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Recent scholarship has highlighted that, for many foreign nationals, Western European prisons function as 'places of crimmigration' where non-citizens are over-represented, often excluded from rehabilitation efforts, sometimes held in segregated prisons, and where it is common for incarceration to lead to deportation. However, this literature has mainly focused on north-western European countries and has neglected countries on the EU's southern border, where different dynamics may be at work. This research aims to provide a broader understanding of how border control shapes imprisonment in Western European prisons by including Spain, a Southern European country, in the picture. To this end, this article examines prison regulations on foreign inmates and original statistics on their release and expulsion from prison. In doing so, this paper demonstrates that the aims of border control have permeated Spanish prisons, making imprisonment into an exclusionary punishment for certain non-citizens and introducing a new role for prison staff. The findings of this study also indicate that expulsions are used selectively on a small proportion of incarcerated noncitizens. This result is consistent with previous research suggesting a discrepancy between crimmigration discourse and practice, while also revealing the existence of hierarchies of belonging.

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Güerri

2024

Punishment & Society

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“…(Interview 12) In interviews with BAB agents, I often heard a subtle critique of the judicial system regarding its leniency in dealing with illegalized migrants. Much of the police criticism was directed at a recent trend among some judges in Spain to reject police requests to have potential deportees detained in detention facilities (Gonzalez-Beilfuss et al, 2018). Several critical reports have condemned the conditions in specially designated detention centres for foreigners (Centros de Internamiento de Extranjeros, hereafter CIEs) for failing to meet basic standards and safeguard the rights of detainees (Daunis, 2016;Observatorio Criminológico del Sistema Penal ante la Inmigración, 2017;Solanes Corella, 2016).…”

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Qualifying deportation: How police translation of ‘dangerous foreign criminals’ led to expansive deportation practices in Spain

Kalir

2022

Security Dialogue

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In 2009, in a move to improve the situation regarding the deportability of illegalized migrants in Spain, a left-wing government led by the Socialist Workers’ Party drafted a new policy aimed at focusing police efforts exclusively on the deportation of ‘foreign criminals’. Ethnographically tracing the enforcement of deportation by a central police unit in Madrid, this article shows how the practical implementation of a policy that seemingly sought to limit the use of deportation in fact allowed for continuous and even reinvigorated deportation practices aimed at all categories of illegalized migrants. Operating under the idea that they were now fighting ‘dangerous criminals’, many police agents felt increasingly motivated about carrying out deportations and reassured about the morality of doing so. Rather than focusing on illegalized migrants who had been indicted for serious crimes, most police agents considered anyone with a police record to fit their target group. As a result of the specific police interpretation of the new policy, the deportability of illegalized migrants in Spain was not only increased but also left to be enforced according to the racialized and racist ideas of police agents. The article argues for the need to scrutinize all new deportation policies within Western liberal states in terms of their effect on deportability by highlighting entrenched and institutionalized forms of racism against illegalized migrants within the police force.

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‘I Do My Work but I Don’t Agree With the Law’: Police Agents Managing Deportation in Madrid, Spain

Kalir¹

2018

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El internamiento de extranjeros: ¿qué dicen los datos? Análisis de los expedientes de internamiento tramitados en la provincia de Barcelona en el año 2015

Cited by 4 publications

References 3 publications

Border control within Spanish prisons? Intersections between immigration control and imprisonment at the southern border of Europe

Border control within Spanish prisons? Intersections between immigration control and imprisonment at the southern border of Europe

Qualifying deportation: How police translation of ‘dangerous foreign criminals’ led to expansive deportation practices in Spain

‘I Do My Work but I Don’t Agree With the Law’: Police Agents Managing Deportation in Madrid, Spain

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