When re-entry means removal: The management of EU national prison populations in Europe

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

The management of EU national prisoners is an increasingly contentious issue in the European prison systems. EU institutions have passed a number of legal provisions based on the principles of mutual trust and mutual cooperation among EU countries, which are aimed at transfering foreign EU national prisoners to the their home countries' prison systems. Yet, against the backdrop of the momentum gained by crimmigration policies, EU member states seem to privilege the utilisation of deportation measures, which affect non-EU national and EU national prisoners alike. This session examined this largely unexplored dimension of the European crimmigration apparatus, which challenges the citizen/noncitizen divide upon which deportation studies have been traditionally premised.

Sub Unit

• Area VI. The Criminal Justice System / 56. Immigration and Justice Issues

Individual Presentations

• Beyond the citizen/non-citizen divide: The deportation of EU nationals in the EU - Jose A. Brandariz, University of A Coruna, Spain

• Transferred or expelled? Foreign national prisoners in Spain - Patricia Faraldo-Cabana, University of A Coruna, Spain; Cristina Fernandez-Bessa, University of A Coruna, Spain

• Between fight against prison overcrowding and mcdonaldisation of justice: the double failure of the administration of cross-border transfers of EU prisoners in Italy - Valeria Ferraris, University of Turin, Italy

• Testing the supranational dimension of offenders' rehabilitation: Towards a new paradigm of criminal punishment in the European Union? - Stefano Montaldo, University of Turin, Italy

Chair

• Jose A. Brandariz, University of A Coruna, Spain