Introduction: Unwanted Citizens of EU Member States and Their Forced Returns within the European Union
Introduction: Unwanted Citizens of EU Member States and Their Forced Returns within the European Union

Summary/Abstract: Governments of countries of the Global North often segregate migrants into three main groups: welcomed and accepted (mostly high-skilled specialists or those who are wealthy); ‘tolerable’ because their work is needed by the host country (skilled or unskilled workers) and unwanted. The latter are often subjected to expulsion processes that can take the form of deportation and administrative removal, as well as the enforcement of instruments of inter-jurisdictional transfer such as the European Arrest Warrant. Focusing on intra-EU expulsion processes, in this article we argue that these reveal stereotypisation and racialisation processes, exposing the fact that such processes are not neutral in their application. We submit that intra-EU expulsions mostly target new citizens from CEE member states. This paper serves as an introduction to the Special Issue entitled ‘Unwanted Citizens of EU Member States and Their Forced Returns within the European Union’.

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