Recent scholarship has highlighted that, for many foreign nationals, Western European prisons function as 'places of crimmigration' where non-citizens are over-represented, often excluded from rehabilitation efforts, sometimes held in segregated prisons, and where it is common for incarceration to lead to deportation. However, this literature has mainly focused on north-western European countries and has neglected countries on the EU's southern border, where different dynamics may be at work. This research aims to provide a broader understanding of how border control shapes imprisonment in Western European prisons by including Spain, a Southern European country, in the picture. To this end, this article examines prison regulations on foreign inmates and original statistics on their release and expulsion from prison. In doing so, this paper demonstrates that the aims of border control have permeated Spanish prisons, making imprisonment into an exclusionary punishment for certain non-citizens and introducing a new role for prison staff. The findings of this study also indicate that expulsions are used selectively on a small proportion of incarcerated noncitizens. This result is consistent with previous research suggesting a discrepancy between crimmigration discourse and practice, while also revealing the existence of hierarchies of belonging.

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西班牙监狱内的边境管制？欧洲南部边境的移民管制和监禁之间的交叉点

最近的学术研究强调，对于许多外国人来说，西欧监狱充当“犯罪移民场所”，其中非公民人数过多，往往被排除在改造努力之外，有时被关押在隔离监狱中，而且通常会被监禁。导致被驱逐出境。然而，这些文献主要关注西北欧国家，而忽略了欧盟南部边境的国家，这些国家可能存在不同的动态。这项研究旨在通过将南欧国家西班牙纳入其中，更广泛地了解边境管制如何影响西欧监狱的监禁。为此，本文考察了监狱中关于外国囚犯的规定以及释放和驱逐出狱的原始统计数据。通过这样做，本文表明边境管制的目标已经渗透到西班牙监狱，使监禁成为对某些非公民的排除性惩罚，并为监狱工作人员引入了新的角色。这项研究的结果还表明，驱逐是有选择地针对一小部分被监禁的非公民。这一结果与之前的研究结果一致，即移民话语与实践之间存在差异，同时也揭示了归属等级制度的存在。