Islands and a Carceral Environment: Maltese Policy in Terms of Irregular Migration

Autor:	Léa Lemaire
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Health (social science) Geography Planning and Development Irregular migration language.human_language Maltese Politics Political science Law Political economy Ethnography language media_common.cataloged_instance National Policy Narrative Securitization European union Demography media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies. 12:143-160
ISSN:	1556-2956 1556-2948
DOI:	10.1080/15562948.2014.894172
Popis:	Although security has become a common framework for analyzing dispositifs that aim to control irregular migration, island spaces themselves are seldom considered as security dispositifs. The case of Malta, where detention is mandatory upon arrival, epitomizes what could be conceptualized as a “sentinel island” within the European Union. This article demonstrates how the interaction between political discourse, administrative practices, and migrants’ experiences contributes to turning the island into a form of total-institution setting. The empirical data is based on qualitative fieldwork that combines ethnographic observation, migrants’ individual narratives and semi-structured interviews conducted with European and national policy makers.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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