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Judging Migrants

open access: yesTijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 2023
The Dutch Golden Age is often referred to as a prime example of Dutch tolerance with regard to the ‘open’ policies towards migration and the harmonious co-existence of migrants with their local neighbours. Considering that, before 1800, migrants made up
Karlijn Luk, Samantha Sint Nicolaas
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Managing migration, fighting organized crime, or protecting migrants? Dutch prosecutors’ multifaceted approach to human smuggling

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 239-262, June 2026.
Abstract Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of street‐level bureaucracy and the evolving role of prosecutors under institutional pressure, this article offers an empirical contribution to the literature on ‘crimmigration’. It interrogates how prosecutors interpret their role within human‐smuggling cases and how these interpretations affect the ...
FLAVIA PATANÈ
wiley   +1 more source

Using Risk to Assess the Legal Violence of Mandatory Detention

open access: yesLaws, 2016
Immigration mandatory detention is a particularly harsh example of the structural violence embedded in immigration enforcement. It deprives liberty without bond for immigrants with prior crimes, and assigns many individuals to the harsh conditions ...
Robert Koulish
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The hidden discount: Examining racial disparity in the use of suspended sentences

open access: yesCriminology, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 450-484, May 2026.
Abstract Extant research on criminal sentencing generally concludes that racial/ethnic disparity is concentrated in the “in–out” decision, and that racial differences in sentence lengths are small and inconsistent. However, sentence length analyses rarely focus on the fact that criminal sentences are often partially or fully suspended, creating ...
Kevin Petersen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Where is “that American Joy”?: Ibi Zoboi's American Street (2017) as a Twenty‐First‐Century Political Novel about the Limits of the Haitian/American Dream

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, Volume 80, Issue 6, Page 589-601, December 2025.
Abstract A product of American exceptionalism, the myth of the American Dream has always defended that the United States is the nation of upward mobility par excellence. Nonetheless, in the last two decades, many scholars, economists, and even politicians have acknowledged the fact that economic inequality is a reality in the country, especially vis‐à ...
Laura Roldán‐Sevillano
wiley   +1 more source

Criminalizing “Pro-Immigrant” Initiatives: Reducing the Space of Human Action

open access: yesDve Domovini, 2019
The article addresses the problem of the surveillance, disciplining and criminalization of practices of non-governmental initiatives which offer help to irregular migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in Slovenia and four neighbouring countries. Based on
Vlasta Jalušič
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Migrant Data Extractivism: Tech and Borders at the Limit of Rights

open access: yesInternational Migration, Volume 63, Issue 4, August 2025.
ABSTRACT In this paper I present the notion ‘migrant data extractivism’ and argue that it is a defining aspect of pervasive systems of data‐based migration governance. I focus on two specific examples: the partnership between the International Rescue Committee and OpenAI for providing chatbot assistance for the delivery of educational experiences to ...
Marianna Poyares
wiley   +1 more source

Giving voice to migrant children during reception and asylum procedures. Illustrations on the implementation of Art. 12 CRC in Greece and Belgium

open access: yesRevista Española de Investigación Criminológica, 2020
According to a children’s rights’ approach, asylum-seeking children are entitled to special protection. However, reality dictates that as soon as they enter a host country irregularly, they are often criminalised, thus becoming part of the crimmigration ...
Ioannis Papadopoulos   +1 more
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In Bed With the State? Queer and Trans Migrations Through Marriage

open access: yesSociology Compass, Volume 19, Issue 8, August 2025.
ABSTRACT This review examines a quarter century of scholarship on LGBTQ marriage and partner migration. The question in the title of the article is one that comes up in different ways in this literature: the intrusion of the immigration state into couple and family relationships, and the extent to which queer and trans people are forced to be “in bed ...
Amy Brainer
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of the 2015 refugee crisis on Hungarian criminal policy

open access: yesBelügyi Szemle, 2020
My study examines Hungary’s migration management, in the framework of criminal policy and the theory of deterrence. Hungarian public service bodies have a two-fold task, since they must act in accordance with a given situation and be prepared for the ...
László András Szabó
doaj   +1 more source

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