Institutional violence and care in Belgian immigration detention centres

Contributing to the literature on humanitarian border governmentality, this article analyses under which conditions care and control become complementary in border control practices. Whereas most authors have focused on how care has been integrated in police operations, this articles look at how the care-work of “social staff” has been transformed by the elements of control in Belgian immigration detention centres. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and combining prison sociology with organisational theory, I argue that one must look at the specific configurations of power that structure 1) the d... Mehr ...