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DETAINED UNDOCUMENTED MIGRANTS IN PORTUGAL AND ITALY: AN ANALYSIS ON HEALTH, WELL-BEING AND VULNERABILITY.
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Examining life in detention: A process of survey translation and adaptation through an ecological and collaborative approach
Publication . Esposito, Francesca; Di Napoli, Immacolata; Ornelas, José; Briozzo, Erica; Arcidiacono, Caterina
This paper illustrates the process we engaged in to translate and adapt a survey to examine life in an immigration detention center in Italy from the perspective of the migrants detained therein. The process consisted of: the forward translation of the original measure performed by four independent translators; a blind backward translation to identify misinterpretations or incorrect cross-cultural and contextual adaptations; a synthesis of all translations to obtain a semifinal version; the creation of an Expert Committee composed of scholars, practitioners, and migrants with experience of detention to assess equivalence and content validity; and, finally, pretesting with a group of 15 detained persons. Through this multi-step process we obtained a measure capable of grasping the context-specific meanings, needs and experiences that characterize life in detention. The challenges and benefits of a collaborative and ecological approach to measurement translation and adaption are discussed in the final section.
Women’s Experiences of Immigration Detention in Italy: Examining Immigration Procedural Fairness, Human Dignity, and Health
Publication . Esposito, Francesca; Di Martino, Salvatore; Briozzo, Erica; Arcidiacono, Caterina; Ornelas, Jose
Recent decades have witnessed a growing number of states around the world relying
on border control measures, such as immigration detention, to govern human mobility
and control the movements of those classified as “unauthorised non-citizens.” In
response to this, an increasing number of scholars from several disciplines, including
psychologists, have begun to examine this phenomenon. In spite of the widespread
concerns raised, few studies have been conducted inside immigration detention sites,
primarily due to difficulties in gaining access. This body of research becomes even
scanter when it comes to the experiences of detained women. This study is the first
of its kind to have surveyed 93 women confined in an Italian immigration detention
facility. A partial mediation model with latent variables was tested through partial least
structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM). The findings revealed the negative impact that
unfair immigration procedures have on detained women’s human dignity, which in turn
negatively affects their self-rated physical and mental health. Overall, our study sheds
light on the dehumanisation and damage to human dignity that immigration detention
entails, as well as its negative impact on the health of those affected. This evidence
reinforces the image of these institutions as sites of persistent injustice, while stressing
the need to envision alternative justice-oriented forms to address human mobility
Fragmented citizenship: contemporary infrastructures of mobility containment along two migratory routes
Publication . Esposito, Francesca; Murtaza, Ali; Peano, Irene; Vacchiano, Francesco
Several authors have contended recently that the rationality of contemporary migration control can be most adequately grasped by the notion of ‘containment’, conceived as the redirection of people’s autonomous movement into restricted and defined pathways. Following this idea, this article proceeds in three steps. First, it proposes an analysis of the ‘infrastructures’ through which containment is enforced, showing the plural dimensions (regulatory, humanitarian, commercial, social) of which they are composed. Second, analysing two cases of transnational mobility towards (and across) the EU, it shows the effect of containment on people’s spatial and existential trajectories. And third, through the analysis of such cases, it contends that the ultimate effect of containment is the fragmentation of citizenship into a variety of intermediate ‘latitudinal’ positions characterised by partial and conditional access to rights, which are functional to several forms of exploitation, including labour but also profit extraction through the operations of containment infrastructures themselves.
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SFRH/BD/87854/2012