The Experience of Undocumented Women and Children in Detention

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_8331
dc.contributor.author	Ouali Nouria
dc.title	The Experience of Undocumented Women and Children in Detention Centres in Belgium. Ill-Treatment or Torture?
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	The article examines one of the forms of state violence exercised on undocumented migrants in Belgium, in particular on women and children, since the introduction of their confinement in detention centres and their forced deportation in the late 1980s. The article concludes that regarding the norm of the intentionality of migration policies and the detrimental effects on the mental and physical health of children and women migrants, the recognising of these inhuman treatments as typical forms of torture of detention centres and their re-labelling as such would seem more consistent and realistic. The challenge of this re-labelling lies in the need to shift the moral and legal debate to the political one in order to question that form of migrants’ governmentality and policy unworthy of a democracy.
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	2022-04-25
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-636-7/the-experience-of-undocumented-women-and-children/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-635-0/009
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	Belgium
dc.subject	Deportation
dc.subject	Detention centers
dc.subject	Torture
dc.subject	Undocumented women and children

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The Experience of Undocumented Women and Children in Detention Centres in Belgium

Ill-Treatment or Torture?

Nouria Ouali Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique

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abstract

The article examines one of the forms of state violence exercised on undocumented migrants in Belgium, in particular on women and children, since the introduction of their confinement in detention centres and their forced deportation in the late 1980s. The article concludes that regarding the norm of the intentionality of migration policies and the detrimental effects on the mental and physical health of children and women migrants, the recognising of these inhuman treatments as typical forms of torture of detention centres and their re-labelling as such would seem more consistent and realistic. The challenge of this re-labelling lies in the need to shift the moral and legal debate to the political one in order to question that form of migrants’ governmentality and policy unworthy of a democracy.

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Jan. 11, 2023

Accepted

May 3, 2022

Submitted

April 25, 2022

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978-88-6969-636-7

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978-88-6969-635-0

Keywords: Torture • Belgium • Detention centers • Deportation • Undocumented women and children

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