The construction of “official outlaws”. Social-psychological and educational implications of a deterrent asylum policy

Sánchez-Mazas, Margarita

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00382

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“…Sambor focuses on the use of flights, arguing that aeroplanes have become mobile sites of migrant detention -spaces both obscure and hyper-visible. As deportation enacts the border, aviation infrastructure becomes a materialized text of enforcement rhetoric and anti-immigration discourse (Sambor, 2021).…”

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Situated sites of migration control: Swiss deportation practices and their relational materiality in prisons, hospitals, and airports

Borrelli

2023

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Abstract. Deportation is often studied in the context of research into the administration, enforcement, and control of immigration, with researchers highlighting the violent effect on deportees and studying the various actors involved in the deportation process. This contribution adds to the growing literature on deportation infrastructures by emphasizing the inseparability of deportation procedures from the specific sites in which they unfold, as well as highlighting the analytical interest and political agency of such spaces. My socio-material approach applies a rather classical understanding of infrastructure, asking what three specific deportation sites – prisons, hospitals, and airports – can tell us about deportation procedures as a technology of immigration enforcement. Using Switzerland as a case study, this paper analyses deportation procedures, including the role of human and non-human actors, paying particular attention to the situatedness and relationality of deportation infrastructures. The socio-material analysis of the architecture of the three sites under discussion ultimately exposes deportation as violent statecraft.

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“…For more specific research on emergency shelters, seeSanchez- Mazas (2015) or DelBiaggio and Rey (2017). These "shelters" are diverse in their architecture but are often in poor condition, including underground bunkers, or are closed during winter.…”

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2023

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“…Moreover, the application outcome may amplify precedent psychopathology or trigger new psychiatric symptoms [ 7 , 8 , 13 , 14 , 15 ]. The claimants may suffer additional stress if they are due to be expelled [ 8 , 16 , 17 ]. Data are available on the use of mental health care services by asylum seekers and these results reflect valuable aspects of claimants’ needs [ 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 ].…”

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Upon Rejection: Psychiatric Emergencies of Failed Asylum Seekers

Schoretsanitis

Bhugra

Eisenhardt

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Background: The status of a refugee or asylum seeker is only recognised after legal processes. The uncertainty of these procedures or the rejection itself may severely impact mental well-being. Methods: We surveyed the patterns of psychiatric services used by patients whose applications for asylum had been rejected. In a retrospective investigation of admissions to the University Emergency Department in Bern, Switzerland between 1 March 2012 and 28 February 2017, we studied patients receiving a psychiatric consultation after their applications had been rejected. The primary endpoint was based on the comparison of these individuals with controls who were asylum seekers with pending asylum applications using the Mann-Whitney U test and the chi-square test (χ2) with a significance level of 0.05. Results: Thirty-eight cases were identified. There were more men than women and the mean age was 30.08 ± 9.62 years. Patients predominantly presented as walk-in patients (n = 16, 42.1%), most frequently due to suicidal ideation (n = 16, 42.1%). Stress-related disorders were the most common diagnosis (n = 29, 76.3%) and patients were mainly referred to inpatient treatment (n = 28, 73.7%). Patients with rejected applications were less likely to be living in reception centres than patients with a pending application (χ2 = 17.98, p < 0.001). Conclusion: The profile of asylum seekers whose applications had been rejected reflects individuals with high-stress levels, potentially aggravated by the negative asylum decision.

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“An Especially Thankless Work”? Filtering Practices in Emergency Shelters and Ethical Dilemmas for Street-level Social Workers in Western Switzerland

Bertho

Heidegger

2020

Zeitschrift Für Sozialreform

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Based on an ethnographic survey conducted in services for the homeless in French-speaking Switzerland, this paper examines street-level social workers’ struggles between the implementation of official policies and their direct work with people. Beyond their common condition of homelessness, people looking for shelter are a very heterogeneous group: undocumented migrants and foreign workers rub shoulders with poor, local pensioners, or with persons suffering from drug addiction or mental illness. Guided by national and international residence and labour legislation, local authorities and institutions have their own policies – more or less strict in their exclusion of poor migrants – regarding the legitimate beneficiaries of a place in the emergency accommodation system. In this article, we analyse the encounters of street-level social workers with homeless people and examine the practical, value-based and ethical dilemmas they face, as well the use of their discretionary power in making more - or less - appropriate shelter available for destitute migrants.

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The construction of “official outlaws”. Social-psychological and educational implications of a deterrent asylum policy

Cited by 4 publications

References 10 publications

Situated sites of migration control: Swiss deportation practices and their relational materiality in prisons, hospitals, and airports

Situated sites of migration control: Swiss deportation practices and their relational materiality in prisons, hospitals, and airports

Upon Rejection: Psychiatric Emergencies of Failed Asylum Seekers

“An Especially Thankless Work”? Filtering Practices in Emergency Shelters and Ethical Dilemmas for Street-level Social Workers in Western Switzerland

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