The absent presence of the deportation apparatus: methodological challenges in the production of knowledge on immigration detention

Könönen, Jukka

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“…Rebecca Sutton and Darshan Vigneswaran (2011) have described the agency of immigration officials and deportable migrants during an immigration legal hearing in South Africa. More recently, Jukka Könönen (2021) has analysed immigrant detainees' negotiations with the Finnish deportation apparatus. While the hegemony of the deportation regime and the resourcefulness and counter-hegemonic actions of people targeted by it are vital research topics, we as researchers must also be equipped to comprehensively study the experiences of research participants, including their agency.…”

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A power-knowledge approach

Radziwinowiczówna

2024

Research Methods in Deportation

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A power-knowledge approach

Radziwinowiczówna

2024

Research Methods in Deportation

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“…Mainly in 2016, I conducted ethnographic fieldwork in detention units (75 visits in total), observations of more than 100 detention hearings at district courts, interviews with lawyers, detention unit workers and other actors, and analysis of the detention records from 2016, covering more than 1000 administrative detention orders. (For more information on the research methodology, see Könönen, 2021b. ) In addition to detainees' struggles and varying situations, my multisited and mixed-methods research provided insights into the role of different actors and processes in immigration enforcement.…”

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Multiple functions of immigration detention: Police measures in the governance of mobile populations

Könönen

2023

Punishment & Society

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Notwithstanding punitive implications, immigration detention as an administrative deprivation of liberty represents a characteristic police measure, targeting deportable noncitizens with limited rights and protections. Drawing on an analysis of the detention system in Finland, I discuss different functions of immigration detention, focusing on police powers in the governance of mobile populations. In Finland, immigration detention is separated from the criminal justice system and delegated to the police, who possess broad powers to impose coercive measures for the enforcement of immigration decisions and social control in the absence of effective judicial supervision. Despite being affiliated with the removal of rejected asylum seekers, immigration detention also is intertwined with crime prevention and control of irregular migration. In addition to deprivation of liberty in the first place, police measures support removal procedures that continue during detention, as well as other administrative strategies to control deportable people and deter unauthorized residency, involving varying degrees of coercion. Though connected with criminal justice and manifestations of penal power in border criminology discussions, immigration detention can arguably be better understood as a coercive police measure, which can be employed alongside other administrative means for immigration enforcement outside of the criminal justice system.

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Immigration detention as a routine police measure: Discretionary powers in preemptive detention of noncitizens in Finland

Könönen

2022

Law Soc Rev

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This article discusses how administrative practices shape immigration detention policies, addressing both administrative discretion in detention orders and their judicial supervision. Due to vaguely formulated legal criteria and ineffective ex‐post judicial supervision, the authorities have considerable discretionary powers in ordering detentions for noncompliant and criminalized noncitizens. Instead of being a measure of last resort, immigration detention is used in a routine manner, with little individual assessment, for the enforcement of removals and the prevention of irregular migration, as well as extensively for crime prevention. The findings demonstrate the role of the police as the main actor in the detention system in Finland, with significant implications for the formation of detention policies.

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The absent presence of the deportation apparatus: methodological challenges in the production of knowledge on immigration detention

Abstract: This is an open access article under the terms of the Creat ive Commo ns Attri butio n-NonCo mmerc ial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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Multiple functions of immigration detention: Police measures in the governance of mobile populations

Immigration detention as a routine police measure: Discretionary powers in preemptive detention of noncitizens in Finland

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