A Socio-Legal Study on Foreigners’ Arrest, Detention and Deportation in The Basque Country: Special Analysis of the Express Deportation Practices

Abstract

The procedures for arrest, detention and expulsion of foreigners that take place in the Basque Country within the framework of the Spanish legislation on immigration constitute a unexplored phenomenon. There is a social and academic perception that this territory, lacking its own legal competences in terms of immigration, is located aside from to the State and global dynamics of control of irregular immigration and borders. On the contrary, the data and the empirical work developed in this administrative and judicial area demonstrate precisely that the police-administrative activity in this matter is quite relevant, and also presents singular particularities such as the existence of a border with a Member State. Precisely, there are practices related to the managerial logics such as the so-called express expulsions, which require specific reflections from a legal guarantees’ perspective.

Keywords

• Derecho de Extranjería
• procedimientos sancionatorios de expulsión
• metodología empírica
• País Vasco