Governing Through Ignorance: Swedish Authorities' Treatment of Detained and Non-deported Migrants during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

IF 2 3区社会学 Q1 LAW Feminist Legal Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Epub Date: 2022-09-17 DOI:10.1007/s10691-022-09495-5

Annika Lindberg, Anna Lundberg, Elisabet Rundqvist, Sofia Häythiö

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Tensions between migration enforcement and migrants' health and rights have gained renewed urgency during the COVID-19 pandemic. This article critically analyses how the pandemic has affected detained and deportable people in Sweden. Building on an activist methodological approach and collaboration, based on a survey conducted inside Swedish detention centres during the pandemic and the authors' research and activist engagement with migrants who are detained or legally stranded in Sweden, we argue that migration authorities' inadequate measures to protect detained and deportable people during the pandemic is a case of governance through ignorance enabled by structural racism. The article traces how this ignorance operates on a structural, institutional and micro-level, enabling public disregard and political irresponsibility for the harmful effects of migration enforcement. A broader aim of the article is to challenge the structural, societal and epistemic ignorance of the conditions for detained and deportable persons and to contribute to political change.

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无知治国:瑞典当局在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间对被拘留和未被驱逐移民的待遇。

在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间，移民执法与移民健康和权利之间的紧张关系再次变得紧迫。本文批判性地分析了这一流行病对瑞典被拘留和被驱逐者的影响。基于大流行期间在瑞典拘留中心进行的一项调查，以及作者的研究和与在瑞典被拘留或合法滞留的移民的积极分子接触，我们认为，移民当局在大流行期间保护被拘留者和被驱逐者的措施不足，是结构性种族主义导致的无知治理的一个例子。这篇文章追溯了这种无知是如何在结构、制度和微观层面上运作的，使公众对移民执法的有害影响视而不见，在政治上不负责任。该条的一个更广泛的目的是挑战对被拘留者和被驱逐者的条件的结构、社会和认识上的无知，并促进政治变革。

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