Soigner en centre de rétention administrative

Enjolras, Franck

doi:10.4000/hommesmigrations.449

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“…A mention of her consultation with a psychiatrist in the memo has a double sense here. From the perspective of the system, it is a signal of appropriate care for the subordinate/immigrant (Enjolras 2009, klaus 2012:28, Turrini, Purgato, Ballette, nosè, Ostuzzi, Barbui 2017, and as such legitimises further actions directed at him/her. what is significant, it does not result from the memos whether the Woman was diagnosed earlier for any disorders.…”

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‘External Limbo’ – ‘Internal Limbo’. On the Detention of Immigrants in Polish Guarded Centres for Foreigners

Chwieduk

2022

Stud. Migr. Prz. Pol.

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For immigrants, a disruption of their migration biography as a result of detention, waiting to be granted the status of a refugee/asylum seeker, is tantamount to being in a state of suspension. Relevant literature often metaphorically refers to this situation as a state of ‘limbo’. In my article, I refer it to the institutional dimension of the total reality of the Guarded Centres for Foreigners (GCFs), calling it an ‘external limbo’ in which the individual is reduced to the rules of the controlling system. This situation evokes a state of alienation in the subject (immigrant in the role of a subordinate), who is strictly dependant on the officers (personnel) supervising their functioning. In effect, such conditions lead to different adaptation attitudes of the people detained in the GCFs, but above all, they do not promote their mental well-being. I call this last dimension of one’s stay at the GCF an ‘internal limbo’. My reflections are concentrated on an analysis of official documents describing events concerning a young Woman detained in one of the six GCFs in Poland. I treat this material as an exploratoryexplanative case study on the topic of the attitude of detention institutions to persons ‘in a mental/ emotional crisis’ and I ask about the ‘external limbo’ as understood in psychiatric anthropology, focusing on sociocultural conditions legitimising institutional use of disciplining practices in relation to the people the personnel of GCFs consider as ‘raising concern’. In my interpretation, I refer to the context of the functioning of the guarded centres as a total institution and the ‘economies of morality’ that are disclosed there. As a result, my goal is to indicate the characteristic manifestations of the ‘external limbo’, which may affect the condition of the ‘internal limbo’, and I progress towards reflection on the sense of detaining persons who pose no threat to their surroundings in the GCF, which is connected with an answer to the question concerning the manner of functioning of the guarded centres (in view of the welfare of all the people who stay there, not only immigrants).

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‘External Limbo’ – ‘Internal Limbo’. On the Detention of Immigrants in Polish Guarded Centres for Foreigners

Chwieduk

2022

Stud. Migr. Prz. Pol.

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The Absent Interpreter in Administrative Detention Center Medical Units

Rondeau-Lutz

Weber

2014

Health Care Anal

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The particular situation of the French administrative detention center (ADC) medical units appears to be an exemplary case to study the difficulties facing medical practice. Indeed, the starting point of our inquiry was an amazing observation that needed to be addressed and understood: why are professional interpreters so seldom requested in ADC medical units, where one would expect that they would be "naturally" present? Aiming to fully explore the meanings of the "absent interpreter", this article takes into account the possible meanings of this situation: the recourse to professional interpreters in France is far from expected given cumulative evidence of its benefits; perceptions of illegal immigrants and medical habitus itself may both hamper the use of a third party; the ADCs are a very stressful place for healthcare professionals, with conflicting missions, political issues enmeshed with medical goals, and heavy affective burden that may lead to self-protection. Silencing voices of suffering others might be seen as the hidden indecent truth of the "absent interpreter". These reflections open a window to a larger issue with regard to the full range of medicine: what are the place, the role and the function of patient's words and narratives in contemporary medicine? The highly invested somatic perspective and its political corollary giving primacy to bare life harbor potential risks of obscuring speeches and undervaluing narratives.

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Challenges to medical ethics in the context of detention and deportation: Insights from a French postcolonial department in the Indian Ocean

Sahraoui

2020

Social Science & Medicine

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Soigner en centre de rétention administrative

Cited by 4 publications

References 3 publications

‘External Limbo’ – ‘Internal Limbo’. On the Detention of Immigrants in Polish Guarded Centres for Foreigners

‘External Limbo’ – ‘Internal Limbo’. On the Detention of Immigrants in Polish Guarded Centres for Foreigners

The Absent Interpreter in Administrative Detention Center Medical Units

Challenges to medical ethics in the context of detention and deportation: Insights from a French postcolonial department in the Indian Ocean

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