Immigration detention

Bosworth, Mary

doi:10.1080/09627250801937611

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“…Researchers, activists, and formerly detained persons have offered rich accounts of how detention operates affectively on detained people by causing their fear, anxiety and anger, and by harming them physically, mentally, and existentially (Boochani, 2018; Bosworth, 2016; Griffiths, 2013). These harms are facilitated through and amplified by, racial devaluing processes, which make their suffering acceptable – in some cases, even desirable – to the public (Bhatia, 2020).…”

Section: Racial Affect and The Making Of Expellable Othersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Feeling difference: Race, migration, and the affective infrastructure of a Danish detention camp

Lindberg

2022

Incarceration

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Migration-related detention, the administrative incarceration of people lacking legal authorisation to remain, has become a standardised technique used by states to violently regulate and discipline undesired mobility. As carceral junctions, migration detention camps serve to identify, confine, symbolically punish and expel people deemed ‘out of place’ in the national order of things. As bordering mechanisms, they are techniques of sorting and controlling populations, and sites where we can observe the enforcement of state racism. These processes of racialisation and expulsion operate corporally and affectively. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with prison officers working inside Denmark's migration-related detention camp, and engaging with the literature on race, emotion and border criminology, the article traces the role of racial affect in forging the identities of people interacting inside the camp. It demonstrates how prison officers’ racialised suspicion, compromised compassion, and passionate nationalism partake in making incarcerated migrants into expellable subjects, and in ordering them in accordance with matrices of racial differentiation. The officers’ emotions, I argue, should be understood as part of the camp's infrastructure, and productive for the border regime.

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Section: Racial Affect and The Making Of Expellable Othersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Feeling difference: Race, migration, and the affective infrastructure of a Danish detention camp

Lindberg

2022

Incarceration

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“…La literatura muestra que la crimigración impacta en las percepciones acerca de los extranjeros, y sobre la migración en general. Esto se explica, en parte, a través de la teoría de la pertenencia, que aduce que la categorización como ilegales de aquellos que llegan sin documentación genera una relación con el derecho penal en el imaginario de las personas, haciéndoles entender que aquellos que llegan sin documentos y trabajan sin visa son criminales, peligrosos e indignos (Bosworth, 2008;Gasper;Sinatti, 2016;Pyszczek, 2012).…”

Section: Populismo Punitivo Y Crimigraciónunclassified

Migration, Fears and the Media in the Presidential Election in Chile (2017)

Dammert

Erlandsen

2020

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La migración se ha instalado como el otro amenazante en América Latina, y Chile no es una excepción. Tomando la conceptualización de la comunidad imaginada, el artículo analiza la importancia y características de la cobertura de medios de prensa sobre migración y el populismo punitivo durante la elección presidencial de Chile, en 2017. Se analizó una muestra aleatoria de todas las piezas informativas de los dos principales diarios durante el año 2017. La migración se ha convertido en un tema de debate nacional y los medios muestran un discurso político centrado en el populismo punitivo, la innecesaria generalización de imágenes estigmatizadoras y la consolidación de la metáfora que vincula la migración con el peligro, principalmente la criminalidad. Más crónica que análisis, es la principal característica de las coberturas que permiten enfatizar imágenes amenazantes y políticamente rentables, posiblemente tratando de proteger esa comunidad que el discurso político realza de forma constante.

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“…The detention system in the UK is now one of the largest in Europe, with reports that the UK detains a greater number of asylum-seekers for longer periods than any other European country (Bosworth, 2008). As many as 32 741 individuals entered detention in the year ending September 2015, an increase of 11% from the previous year (UK Home Office Immigration Statistics, 2015).…”

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Mental health morbidity among people subject to immigration detention in the UK: a feasibility study

Sen

Arugnanaseelan

Connell

et al. 2017

Epidemiol Psychiatr Sci

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Aims.The UK has one of the largest systems of immigration detention in Europe.. Those detained include asylum-seekers and foreign national prisoners, groups with a higher prevalence of mental health vulnerabilities compared with the general population. In light of little published research on the mental health status of detainees in immigration removal centres (IRCs), the primary aim of this study was to explore whether it was feasible to conduct psychiatric research in such a setting. A secondary aim was to compare the mental health of those seeking asylum with the rest of the detainees.Methods.Cross-sectional study with simple random sampling followed by opportunistic sampling. Exclusion criteria included inadequate knowledge of English and European Union nationality. Six validated tools were used to screen for mental health disorders including developmental disorders like Personality Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Intellectual Disability, as well as for needs assessment. These were the MINI v6, SAPAS, AQ-10, ASRS, LDSQ and CANFOR. Demographic data were obtained using a participant demographic sheet. Researchers were trained in the use of the screening battery and inter-rater reliability assessed by joint ratings.Results.A total of 101 subjects were interviewed. Overall response rate was 39%. The most prevalent screened mental disorder was depression (52.5%), followed by personality disorder (34.7%) and post-traumatic stress disorder (20.8%). 21.8% were at moderate to high suicidal risk. 14.9 and 13.9% screened positive for ASD and ADHD, respectively. The greatest unmet needs were in the areas of intimate relationships (76.2%), psychological distress (72.3%) and sexual expression (71.3%). Overall presence of mental disorder was comparable with levels found in prisons. The numbers in each group were too small to carry out any further analysis.Conclusion.It is feasible to undertake a psychiatric morbidity survey in an IRC. Limitations of the study include potential selection bias, use of screening tools, use of single-site study, high refusal rates, the lack of interpreters and lack of women and children in study sample. Future studies should involve the in-reach team to recruit participants and should be run by a steering group consisting of clinicians from the IRC as well as academics.

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Immigration detention

Cited by 7 publications

References 3 publications

Feeling difference: Race, migration, and the affective infrastructure of a Danish detention camp

Feeling difference: Race, migration, and the affective infrastructure of a Danish detention camp

Migration, Fears and the Media in the Presidential Election in Chile (2017)

Mental health morbidity among people subject to immigration detention in the UK: a feasibility study

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