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: Imprisonment, Racialization and Right-Wing Populism in Europe I

Thu, Nov 14, 8:00 to 9:20am, Foothill A - 2nd Level

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

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Despite the high imprisonment rates of the US, the presence of non-native born in US prisons has traditionally been quite low. On the contrary, the current comparatively low levels of imprisonment in Europe are accompanied by a massive overrepresentation of foreigners in European prison systems. The present panel intends to shed light on such overrepresentation by focusing on the presence of different nationalities in prison in Europe, and by interrogating the possible processes of racialization that may have accompanied this overly large presence in several European countries. Have these processes of racialization and connected prisonization developed in relation to the turn to the right of much European politics in recent years? Or, have they represented a forewarning and an anticipation of a cultural orientation that has eventually also expressed itself in such right-wing turn? Our panel(s) tries to give a first tentative answer to such question by focussing on the possible relationships among imprisonment, racialization and right-wing populism, in several European countries, such as Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Greece the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

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