Bhatia and Bruce-Jones, 2021 Brooker et al., 2017 Pérez-Sales, 2018). A linking concept evolves in the study of torture as a means of deterrence (e.g. Thus, migration detention is a primary research field in which the perspectives of migration scholars and clinical psychologists meet. What migration researchers call politics of deterrence, clinical studies call post-migration stressors (Hynie, 2018).
Independently of its geographical place, there is various evidence that migration detention has a severe impact on the detainees’ mental health outcomes (e.g. Along the borders of both arrival and transit states, detention camps emerge. Highlighting structural human rights violations, the findings stress the need to review current migration policies.ĭetention of undocumented migrants and asylum seekers has become a globalised norm of the ruling. It indicates that detention is part of deterrence politics, which perpetuates harm and inequality through detention and deportation. The study emphasises that immigration detention immobilises migrants in a necropolitical limbo, which destroys hope as much as human integrity. released interviewees revealed lasting feelings of fear and shame. Without exception, all interviews of detainees underline that the manipulation of detention conditions creates torturing environments that cause harm to basic physiological and psychological needs. Facultative counter-mappings of the detention centres complement the interviews. Additional n = 10 in-depth interviews with human rights advocates to explore the interconnections between the detention environments, their impact on mental health, and Mexican migration politics. The interviews include the Torturing Environment Scale (TES), a novel instrument for the analysis of detention environments, as well as clinical psychological measures of emotional distress. The study’s mixed method approach builds on semi-structured interviews with a sample of N = 56 migrants of diverse nationalities and varying socioeconomic status of whom 22 were still detained while 34 had been released.
This study aims to fill this gap by analysing how such factors create harmful environments that affect both the detainees‘ mental health and their social life in Mexico’s migration detention centres. Yet, it often disregards the spatial configurations of detention centres and their socio-political context. Clinical research usually puts emphasise on the negative impact of detention enforcement on the detainees‘ mental health. The Mexican state responds with detention enforcement. Mexico’s role in the US-Central American migration regime is threefold: not only is it a country of origin, and a transit country, but also increasingly becoming a receiving country for migrants who flee from violence, insecurity and poverty.
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