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10.4000/remi.968

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Foreign camps since 1938: continuity and adaptations

Abstract

Internment Camps for Foreigners since 1938 : Continuity and Adaptations. From the French ‘Model’ to the Construction of a Schengen Space The long history of internment camps for foreigners in France evokes a spatial expression of the rejection of the ‘other’ (refugees, immigrants, Jews, Harkis…). At the same time, it attests to certain continuity ; the space remains, the excluded populations change along with the political and economic climate. The present diverse ways of managing these spaces and migrants (sometimes brutal and little humane) cultivate links of the past. This does not, of course, mean establishing a simple relationship with the first interment camps for Spanish exiles or those used by the Vichy regime to intern Jews. But the repressive measures taken against foreigners during the 1930’s have influenced and to a certain extent conditioned the French public opinion to confuse refugees, Jews and immigrant workers. Since the Liberation, certain infrastructures have continued to be used for different policies and strategies of exclusion.Today, even though their stakes and forms are entirely different, exclusionary measures have persisted and have been widely developed in the context of European construction. These diverse forms of spatial partitioning can be considered as new border spaces where the exercise of human rights is limited and the terminology of which is rich with euphemism. To map out the existence of these places traces the contours of another Europe; one of rejection inside as well as outside the European Union. The detention of candidates for exile is no longer an exception but has become the rule in regulating massive flows, a rule that should be included into the jurisdiction of the European Union, especially that which concerns refugees.

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