La criminalisation des migrants

Abstract

Criminalization of migrants Over the last few years there has been a growing tendency in almost all European societies to perceive and treat social problems as a threat to public safety and more or less systematically to blame so-called "clandestine" immigration or young people of foreign origin. This process is connected with a global trend towards the criminalization of immigration, which stems at the same time from a change in the dominant representations of this phenomenon and a turnaround in state policy. In a context of continuing economic and social deterioration in the emigrants home societies, the phenomenon of immigration has taken on a new meaning, since the representation is not dissociated from the legal framework in which it formerly occurred. The crisis in the traditional model on the side of immigrants and their home societies is thus accompanied by a growing consensus in European societies in favor of criminalizing immigration.