RT Article
T1 Unravelling the ‘crimmigration knot’: Penal subjectivities, punishment and the censure machine
JF Criminology & criminal justice
VO 20
IS 3
SP 302
OP 318
A1 Di Molfetta, Eleonora
A2 Brouwer, Jelmer
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1786220598
AB This article explores the challenges that (cr)immigration practices pose to draw the boundaries of punishment by examining foreign national prisoners’ penal subjectivities. More exclusionary and draconian migration policies have blurred the boundaries between border control and crime control, creating hybrid forms of punishment that, even if officially claimed as measures outside the criminal justice realm, inflict pain and communicate censure. Drawing on 37 in-depth interviews with foreign national prisoners facing expulsion in the Dutch penitentiary facility of Ter Apel, we detail how hybrid (cr)immigration practices are capable of imposing and delivering meanings that go well behind rooted significances and aims of administrative measures. Traditionally designed with preventive purposes, administrative measures have now become part of a project of social exclusion and reaffirmation of the worth of citizenship. This circumstance raises problematic questions for the legitimacy of the criminal justice system in dealing with non-citizens.
K1 Censure
K1 Crimmigration
K1 Deportation
K1 Foreign national prisoners
K1 Punishment
K1 Re-entry ban
DO 10.1177/1748895818824633