Torturing Them out of the Country

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_8292
dc.contributor.author	Biancolin Diego Alberto
dc.title	Torturing Them out of the Country. The Israeli Asylum Seeker ‘System’ and Its Torture-Like Policies
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This essay will focus on the Israeli immigration policies relating to asylum seekers, showing how they can be qualified as a form of (mainly psychological) torture. Firstly an outline of Israel’s employment of torture against political dissidents will be laid out, together with an analysis of why administrative detention can be understood as a form of torture too. The attention will then be moved to the treatment of African asylum seekers, describing the harsh conditions they have to endure while staying in Israel prior to their deportation from the country, emphasising the features which can qualify them as forms of torture.
dc.relation.ispartof	Società e trasformazioni sociali
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2023-01-11
dc.dateAccepted	2022-05-03
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-04-23
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-636-7/torturing-them-out-of-the-country/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-635-0/010
dc.identifier.issn	2610-9085
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9689
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-636-7
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-635-0
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Administrative detention
dc.subject	Asylum seekers
dc.subject	Immigration policies
dc.subject	Israel
dc.subject	Torture

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Torturing Them out of the Country

The Israeli Asylum Seeker ‘System’ and Its Torture-Like Policies

Diego Alberto Biancolin Università degli Studi di Genova, Italia

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This essay will focus on the Israeli immigration policies relating to asylum seekers, showing how they can be qualified as a form of (mainly psychological) torture. Firstly an outline of Israel’s employment of torture against political dissidents will be laid out, together with an analysis of why administrative detention can be understood as a form of torture too. The attention will then be moved to the treatment of African asylum seekers, describing the harsh conditions they have to endure while staying in Israel prior to their deportation from the country, emphasising the features which can qualify them as forms of torture.

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Jan. 11, 2023

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May 3, 2022

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April 23, 2022

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978-88-6969-636-7

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978-88-6969-635-0

Keywords: Torture • Immigration policies • Administrative detention • Asylum seekers • Israel

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