Coronavirus and Immigration Detention in Europe: The Short Summer of Abolitionism?
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2021-06-12Cita bibliográfica
Brandariz, J.A.; Fernández-Bessa, C. Coronavirus and Immigration Detention in Europe: The Short Summer of Abolitionism? Soc. Sci. 2021, 10, 226. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10060226 10.3390/socsci10060226
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[Abstract] In managing the coronavirus pandemic, national authorities worldwide have implemented significant re-bordering measures. This has even affected regions that had dismantled bordering practices decades ago, e.g., EU areas that lifted internal borders in 1993. In some national cases, these new arrangements had unexpected consequences in the field of immigration enforcement. A number of European jurisdictions released significant percentages of their immigration detention populations in spring 2020. The Spanish administration even decreed a moratorium on immigration detention and closed down all detention facilities from mid-spring to late summer 2020. The paper scrutinises these unprecedented changes by examining the variety of migration enforcement agendas adopted by European countries and the specific forces contributing to the prominent detention decline witnessed in the first months of the pandemic. Drawing on the Spanish case, the paper reflects on the potential impact of this promising precedent on the gradual consolidation of social and racial justice-based migration policies.
Palabras chave
Coronavirus
Immigration detention
Migration enforcement
Detention abolition
Detención de inmigrantes
Migraciones
Abolición de la detención
Migracións
Abolición da detención
Immigration detention
Migration enforcement
Detention abolition
Detención de inmigrantes
Migraciones
Abolición de la detención
Migracións
Abolición da detención
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Atribución 4.0 Internacional (CC BY 4.0)
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2076-0760