{"id":34949,"date":"2022-10-17T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmig.wordpress.com\/?p=34949"},"modified":"2026-02-17T14:21:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:21:47","slug":"legitimising-exclusion-through-criminalisation-an-ethnography-of-immigration-detention-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=34949","title":{"rendered":"Legitimising exclusion through criminalisation: an ethnography of immigration detention in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author(s) : Laura Rezzonico<\/h3>\n

Source : https:\/\/libra.unine.ch\/handle\/20.500.14713\/31630<\/a><\/h3>\n

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“Based on an ethnography of two immigration detention facilities, this thesis asks how immigration detention as a legal measure of exclusion is enacted in Switzerland and to what kind of spaces, practices, representations and experiences it leads. Most facilities used for immigration detention in the Swiss context being ordinary prisons, the research is interested in how such embeddedness within the penal system impacts on the institutional and social realities of detention spaces as well as on the subjective experiences of both detention staff and detainees. Making use of crimmigration as a lens of analysis, it explores the various ways in which crime control and migration control are blurred in carceral facilities with a hybrid nature and function and how such blurring is productive of stigmatisation and criminalisation. Ultimately, this thesis shows that incorporating immigration detention into penal facilities (re)produces representations of migrants as security threats and potential criminals, performing a legitimising effect on the exclusion of unwanted migrants, both in terms of their confinement and deportation.”<\/p>\n

Keywords<\/strong>: immigration detention; crimmigration; criminalisation; exclusion; prison ethnography; carceral space<\/p>\n

“Bas\u00e9e sur une ethnographie de deux centres de d\u00e9tention administrative de personnes migrantes, cette th\u00e8se traite de la mise en \u0153uvre de la d\u00e9tention comme mesure l\u00e9gale d\u2019exclusion en Suisse et s\u2019int\u00e9resse aux types d\u2019espaces, de pratiques, de repr\u00e9sentations et d\u2019exp\u00e9riences auxquels elle donne lieu. La plupart des \u00e9tablissements exploit\u00e9s pour la d\u00e9tention administrative dans le contexte suisse \u00e9tant des prisons ordinaires, la recherche analyse l\u2019impact de cet ancrage dans le syst\u00e8me p\u00e9nal sur les r\u00e9alit\u00e9s institutionnelles et sociales des espaces de d\u00e9tention ainsi que sur les exp\u00e9riences subjectives des agent.e.s de d\u00e9tention et des personnes d\u00e9tenues. Faisant usage de la notion de \u00ab crimmigration \u00bb comme prisme d\u2019analyse, elle explore les diff\u00e9rentes fa\u00e7ons dont le contr\u00f4le du crime et le contr\u00f4le de la migration sont brouill\u00e9s dans des institutions carc\u00e9rales de nature et de fonction hybrides et comment un tel brouillage est productif de stigmatisation et de criminalisation. En d\u00e9finitive, cette th\u00e8se d\u00e9montre que le fait d\u2019incorporer la d\u00e9tention administrative dans des \u00e9tablissements p\u00e9nitentiaires (re)produit des repr\u00e9sentations des migrant.e.s en tant que menaces pour la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 et criminels potentiels, exer\u00e7ant un effet de l\u00e9gitimation sur l\u2019exclusion des migrant.e.s ind\u00e9sirables, \u00e0 la fois en termes d\u2019enfermement et de renvoi.”<\/p>\n

Mots-cl\u00e9s<\/strong> : d\u00e9tention administrative de migrant.e.s ; r\u00e9tention; crimmigration ; criminalisation ; exclusion ; ethnographie de prison; espace carc\u00e9ral<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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