WP 09 : Exceptionalism and its impact on the Euro-Mediterranean relations

Articles

• Conference : Controlling migrations in Europe. Challenges to Human Rights and the Rule of Law.

  19 May 2008, by Université Autonoma de Barcelona
  The Observatory of Criminal System and Human Rights (University of Barcelona), in cooperation with the Centre of European Policy Studies, the European Association for Research on Transformation and the University of Utherch, is pleased to invite you to the Conference on «Controlling migrations in Europe. Challenges to Human Rights and the Rule of Law». The event will take place at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona on the 29th and 30th of May 2008.

• Conference : The external dimension of the intra-EU security: the CFSP, ESDP and JHA in the ENP area

  30 January 2008, by Johansson-Nogués Elisabeth, Université Autonoma de Barcelona
  The IUEE, the LSE and the University of Cologne are pleased to announce the CHALLENGE conference: «The external dimension of the intra-EU security: the CFSP, ESDP and JHA in the ENP area». The conference will be held in Barcelona the 22 of February.

• Report of International Conference Exceptionalism and Human Rights

  27 February 2007, by Observatorio del sistema Penal y los Derechos Humanos
  The main objective of the Conference was to analyze, inform and discuss with the scientific community, students and society, some specific subjects related with the current problems caused by the relationship between liberty and security, specially the links between exceptionalism and globalization, migration, antiterrorism, deprivation of liberty, torture, etc…

• Desafío(s) 3-4 : EMERGENCIAS URBANAS

  27 de febrero de 2007, por Observatorio del sistema Penal y los Derechos Humanos
  …Europe and Occidental states in general, are facing situations that recognizes their origins in the different aspects produced by the globalization process. The urban emergencies analyzed in this publication thanks to the opinions, contributions and information given by all the collaborators, constitute the most evident and recent signs of situations of emergency and exceptional reactions and interventions…

• Desafío(s) 2 : TORTURAS Y ABUSO DE PODER

  21 de febrero de 2007, por Observatorio del sistema Penal y los Derechos Humanos
  Torture and abuse of power can not be considered nowadays inappropriate or meaningless references. Torture has always constituted an abuse of power of any kind: physical, economical, authoritarian, political. Even if these subjects have been of great importance for the construction of the juridical and political culture in Occident since the beginning of Modernity, it is also essential to continue talking about them today. Nowadays we talk about all these behaviors worldwide, and this is why we have considered important to face this subject on this publication, specially when we know torture still exists in every corner of this world through the most horrible abuses of power.

• Desafío(s) 1 : POLÍTICA CRIMINAL DE LA GUERRA

  14 de febrero de 2007, por Observatorio del sistema Penal y los Derechos Humanos
  This first volume of Desafío ( s ) looks to begin an investigation field to analyze the (perverse) relationships established between power and the citizens’ rights. This volume presents different contributions that were submitted at the Seminar on Criminal Policies of War organized on March 2005 by the Observatori del Sistema Penal i els Drets Humans (OSPDH) of the University of Barcelona (UB).

• Jornades internacionals : Excepcionalisme i Drets Humans

  4 de diciembre de 2006, por Observatorio del sistema Penal y los Derechos Humanos
  En el marc del projecte Europeu The Changing Landscape of European Liberty and Security (CHALLENGE) es celebraran les Jornades Internacionals Excepcionalisme i Drets Humans. Aquest projecte, que compta amb la participació de 21 universitats i centres de recerca de tota Europa, pretén fomentar una major sensibilitat i responsabilitat en la presa de decisions relacionades amb les noves polítiques de seguretat, amb l’objectiu de minimitzar el grau que aquestes poden debilitar les llibertats, els drets humans i la cohesió social en una Europa en procés d’ampliació.

• Imagen mediática y opinión pública sobre la inmigración en España y Catalunya.

  17 de julio de 2006, por Cabezas de Alcalá Sílvia, Velilla Giménez Javier
  El informe descifra la ’política de inmigración’ que se deriva del estudio de las noticias publicadas con motivo de la última regularización de inmigrantes impulsada por el Gobierno español en 2005. La investigación detecta una serie de rutinas no adecuadas en el tratamiento mediático de la inmigración, en especial hacia la politización del fenómeno y hacia el concepto de ’fortaleza europea’. Los autores proponen soluciones concretas a partir de protocolos de estilo adoptados por los colegios profesionales de periodistas.

• PUNITIVE POPULISM. Reforms and counter-reforms undertaken in Spain on criminal, procedural-criminal law, penitentiary, police and jurisdictional areas over the latest decade (1995-2005)

  13 June 2006, by Observatorio del sistema Penal y los Derechos Humanos
  Punitive populism is a governance strategy everyday more common in western countries. This strategy although not original seems to be unavoidable for political classes who are convinced that social conflicts ( and consequently, also the political ones) would be regulated by a harder application of Penal System. Reforms and counter-reforms which have being carried out in Spain on criminal and procedural-criminal law, as also on penitentiary, police and jurisdictional areas over the last decade (1995-2005) represent a paradigmatic era of this governance strategy.

• EL POPULISMO PUNITIVO : Análisis de las reformas y contra-reformas del Sistema Penal en España (1995-2005)

  13 de junio de 2006, por Observatorio del sistema Penal y los Derechos Humanos
  Las estrategias punitivas de corte populista son cada vez más habituales en los estados occidentales. Aunque no se trata de estrategiaS completamente novedosas, han pasado a ser un recurso inevitable para la clase política, que parece estar convencida de que los conflictos sociales (y en consecuencia, también los políticos) pueden ser resueltos mediante aplicación del Sistema Penal. Las reformas y contra-reformas penales llevadas a cabo en España durante la última década (1995-2005) representan el paradigma de este tipo de estrategias de gobierno.

• «On Regulations against Incivilities»

  29 May 2006, by Université Autonoma de Barcelona
  A number of recent criminologies have given particular influence to the control of urban disturbances, in Europe and in all Western big cities. Barcelona is a particular case of it, trough a municipal bylaw which came into effect on last January. This by law is responsible to introduce exceptionalist practices as a way to react against incivilities as emergencies.

• The War on Terror. The Spanish Case

  24 May 2006, by Fernández Bessa Cristina, Ortuño Aix José María
  The terrorist attacks in Madrid M-11 did not demand the production of fresh exceptional laws, since a whole exceptionalist framework was already designed and well developed to face the activities of armed groups, and particularly those of the Basque independentist ETA. We approach to Spanish exceptionalism from the view of the legal perspecetive called Criminal Law of the Enemy (also called Criminal Law of Police) developed by German legal scholar, G. Jakobs. The antiterrorist policies implemented after Madrid bombings have fitted well that legal perspective and have meant a wider criminalization of Muslim migrants and in general the view society have of Islam.

• Migration, asylum and Security: The Case of Ceuta and Melilla

  24 May 2006, by Ortuño Aix José María
  The images of tons of people climbing up barbed wire fences over 3 meters high, using rudimentary stairs made by themselves, appeared in all the news during several days. Those images were used by the conservative media and by the main opposition party in Spain to create an atmosphere of extreme social tension. They tried to explain those events just from a domestic point of view, as if they were the consequence of the immigration policy implemented by the Government in 2005, and also of the improvement of relations between Spain and Marocco being exploited by the latter to get control of the Spanish enclaves in North Africa.

• Spanish Immigration Policies and Legislative Evolution in that Field as a New Exceptional Framework

  24 May 2006, by Fernández Bessa Cristina, Ortuño Aix José María
  While laws of immigration in Spain have intended officially to guarantee the rights and liberties of the immigrants and to provide their social integration, as their titles always assure, they have served, in practice, for just the opposite, for the legal and social construction of irregular immigrant to whom the recognition of rights is notably shrinked and who is forced to live in social marginalization, turned into a non-person.

• Los problemas del asilo en la frontera sur de España

  22 de mayo de 2006, por Silveira Gorski Héctor C.
  The right of asylum is not guaranteed at all in Spain. The starting point of this situation are the Asylum Law reform of 1994, the inadequate administrative management and the lack of resources. In this context, Asylum policies have turned into a restrictive sense regarding liberties, rights and guarantees of refugees and asylum seekers. The lack of a real European immigration policy and of political will of European governments to face up the new waves of economical migration, and their plans of turning Europe into a «fortress» have contributed in shaping today’s characteristics of asylum policies.

• Report on Torture in Spain

  22 May 2006, by Coordinadora para la Prevención de la Tortura
  In the last few years, we have witnessed new chapters of this crisis that portray very worrying scenarios for the true respect of human rights. Resorting more and more to military options, adopting antiterrorist legislations that violate fundamental rights and liberties, revealing humiliating and degrading practices, cruel and abusive treatment and torture all over the world, the obstacles set up to prevent the investigation of such practices, and certain kinds of «naturalization» of this regression, constitute just some of the signals that have to be taken into account if we want to keep a model of civilization which could avoid the return to the barbarism that Europe suffered just a little over than half a century ago.

• The long way to Ceuta and Melilla

  11 April 2006, by Challenge
  Roissy, Lampedusa, Ceuta, Melilla, Campsfield - previously unknown localities on the map of Europe have become signposts of European politics towards unwelcome migrants. More than 200 camps of foreigners are scattered now all over Europe. Camps of foreigners have multiplied over the last decade to administer entry, detention and deportation of foreigners. Whatever their physical forms - open camps, closed camps, camps at airports, camps at physical borders, camps in prisons - these camps have three common characteristics

• Report on the seminar : Enlargement of the EU: a Challenge for What?

  17 October 2005, by Research Institute of Ethnic and National Minorities
  Judit Tóth, Research Leader at the Institute, outlined some research perspectives that merit further exploration in the field of EU enlargement research, and she identified some of the obstacles that must be overcome in order to effectively realise such exploration. She first described five different challenges or «traps» that may be encountered in pursuing research on the limitation of liberties for the sake of communitarian interest and security within the specific context of EU enlargement.

• Enlargement of the EU : a Challenge for what?

  6 September 2005, by Research Institute of Ethnic and National Minorities
  The workshop is an integrative part of the EU6 framework research programme «Challenge - The Changing Landscape of European Liberty and Security» (2004-2008). This working package including research institutes, scholars from Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria and Malta covers on short-term and long-term impacts of enlargement on regional and neighbourhood contacts, public order, security issues, as well as national identity aspects. The event would provide a direct exchange of views on methods and analysis of effects, selection of data or a debate on existing results after the first year of the joint work.

• Immigration as an Excuse for much more Security: The case of Spain

  14 June 2005, by Bergalli Roberto
  The Spanish transition to democracy, from 1978, has produced a huge number of changes either within the civil society or also inside the political system. It is absolute true that most of theses changes can be seen as completely positive and because this reason Spain is nowadays considered as one of the main members of the European Union. But, in spite of this, geographically speaking Spain belongs to the Euro Mediterranean area which has a particular significance regarding its competences in certain activities concerning the whole Union.

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