‘We have to regularise them’: Europe’s deportation-first border policy, as told by the judges and police who enforce it

By Olga Jubany, Catedrática en Antropologia Social, Universitat de Barcelona
Sevda Tunaboylu, Investigadora Postdoctoral, Universitat de Barcelona

The European Commission is pressing ahead with its new Common European System for Returns. This legal framework would make returns of immigrants quicker but also more punitive, with longer detentions, stricter conditions, and the creation of “return hubs” in third countries.

But do these proposed measures reflect the views the people who implementing them – the police officers, judges, prosecutors and social workers? Our…

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