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Vulnerable to the System: Migration and Torture in Spain

Olga Jubany    Universitat de Barcelona, Espanya    

Martina Pasqualetto    University of Barcelona    

Alèxia Rué    Universitat de Barcelona, Espanya    

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Grounded on the results of an ethnographic investigation on asylum seekers as victims of torture in Spain, this chapter analyses the governmental devices that define the reality of migrants as victims of torture. Stemming from a critical review of the concept of torture, in relation to migration in contemporary European societies, the chapter puts forward the double vulnerability to which migrants are exposed, as unprotected victims of torture in their countries of origin and as potential victims of torture on arrival to Europe. The paper argues that the precarious legal status and the failure of systems victim protection, combined with meritocratic approaches to migrant incorporation, not only fail to ensure full protection of victims of torture but, moreover, it exposes these victims to further situations of violence and exclusion.

Pubblicato
06 Dicembre 2019
Accettato
11 Ottobre 2019
Presentato
11 Settembre 2019
Lingua
EN
ISBN (PRINT)
978-88-6969-359-5
ISBN (EBOOK)
978-88-6969-358-8

Keywords: State violence • Immigration • Spain • Asylum seekers • Torture

permalink: http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-358-8/005

Copyright: © 2019 Olga Jubany, Martina Pasqualetto, Alèxia Rué. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.