Translating 'legitimate' violence in deportation: a bottom-up relational approach to EU policy norms in practice.
This article examines how norms of 'legitimate' violence in EU deportation have transformed. Following serious injuries and deaths during removals from the 1990s to mid-2010s, there have been significant changes to the implementation of deportation, most notably the establishment of forced-return mo...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 52; no. 16; pp. 4223 - 4243 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep2026
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