Presentation
This book analyses torture, inhuman and degrading treatment towards migrants worldwide, integrating overviews from several contexts and disciplines. It highlights that today migrants’ mistreatment is a global phenomenon, a frequent element of the migratory experience (in countries of departure, of transit, of arrival), an intrinsic component of state policies, and an extreme form of that structural violence which is inherent to the contemporary war on migrants at the global level.
Summary
Torture, Structural Violence and Migration
Fabio Perocco
Torture and Racism
A Brief Insight into an Age-Old and Intimate Relationship
Iside Gjergji
Torturing Environments and Migration
Pau Pérez-Sales Andrea Galán-Santamarina Julia Manek
The Border is the Violence
War, Empire and Migrants in the Making of the US-Mexico Border
Alexander Aviña
Torture, Migration, and State Violence in Contemporary Spain
Olga Jubany Alèxia Rué
Replay of Torture Across ‘Other’ Places and ‘Europe’
The Case of Migration at the Bosnian-Croatian Border
Karolína Augustová
Towards the Legalisation of Pushbacks and Inhuman Treatment in Greece
The Case of Evros/Meriç Border
Eleni Takou
Relocation of Torture and ‘State Torture’
Readmission Agreements, Externalisation of Borders and Closure of Ports in the Mediterranean Sea
Alessandra Algostino
The Experience of Undocumented Women and Children in Detention Centres in Belgium
Ill-Treatment or Torture ?
Nouria Ouali
Torturing Them out of the Country
The Israeli Asylum Seeker ‘System’ and Its Torture-Like Policies
Diego Alberto Biancolin
The Predicament of the Rohingya Refugee, Between Violence and Expulsion
Muhammad Ridwan Mostafa
Massimiliano Aragona Salvatore Geraci Marco Mazzetti