Doctorat en sciences sociales, politiques et économiques / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

The transparency in the public sector, through the information access is consolidated in the principles of democratic rights that concedes to the citizens the power to participate, suggest and supervise the government actions. Therefore, the initiatives that aim to improve the mechanism of publicizing and assessing this subject and its specificities had gain prominence in the context of fomenting the social control and the best practices of public management, as the society and the government are more aware of the importance of this subject and its potential of explaining. In this matter, this dissertation aimed to elaborate a proposition to measure the index of public transparency in order to improve it. So, for that matter, a descriptive and bibliographic research was conducted in order to support the propositions of this study. Using the internet research, it was possible to map the assessment systems and the international and national experiences about this subject, identifying the ones that had parameters related to the method of this study's object, and the experiences that were more relevant in the public sector transparency. The primary sample had 17 methods and the final one had 12, from which 9 were national and 3 were international. Then, 3 different questionnaires were elaborated with open questions that were sent through e-mail to 3 respondents in different public agencies. Each participant answered a questionnaire that was created considering a detailed methodology used by each one and with the usage of the internet research. The objective of those instruments were, firstly, to indentify other contributions about assessment tools to evaluate the public transparency that surpass what the law estabilishes and, secondly, to verify difficulties and advantages in each system. Through the method of qualitative analysis, using the application of the concept analysis technique, it was possible to describe, identify and interpretate the following categories: assessment criterions, social participation, usability and other important information and primary aspects about the best practices in public transparency. The result of the research generated a matrix to measure the index of the public transparency. Moreover, this study created a information check-list protocol, a synoptic assessment matrix and a scale of result's categorization. Therefore, it was possible to make a specific diagnose about criterions and subcriterions of the methodology. In conclusion, it may be said that the improvement of the tools for evaluation and supervision of public resources appplication will make possible to increase the government transparency in order to strenghten the democracy and to foment the social control. / A transparência pública, por meio do acesso à informação, está consubstanciada no princípio democrático de direito, o qual concede ao cidadão o poder de participar, alvitrar e fiscalizar as ações governamentais. Em vista disso, inciativas que visem aperfeiçoar mecanismos de publicização e avaliação acerca do assunto e de suas especificidades, têm ganhado destaque no contexto de fomento ao controle social e de boas práticas em gestão pública, porquanto a sociedade e os governos estão cada vez mais despertos da importância do tema e de seu potencial poder explicativo. Nesse viés, esta dissertação teve como escopo elaborar uma propositura para mensuração do índice de transparência pública a fim de aperfeiçoá-lo. Para tal desiderato, foi necessário realizar uma pesquisa descritiva e bibliográfica, sendo que esta serviu de suporte literário para solidificar as formulações deste estudo. Por meio da busca na web, mapeou-se as sistemáticas de avalição, à luz de experiências nacionais e internacionais, acerca do tema, identificando as que possuíam parâmetros correlatos à metodologia objeto deste estudo, assim como as que se destacavam na análise da transparência pública. A amostra inicial contou com 17 metodologias e a final com 12, das quais 9 em nível nacional e 3 em nível internacional. Logo após, elaborou-se três questionários distintos, com perguntas abertas, que foram enviados, por e-mail, a três respondentes de diferentes órgãos. Cada participante respondeu a um questionário, o qual foi sistematizado consoante a análise pormenorizada da metodologia vivenciada por cada um, como também pelo prévio conhecimento obtido com as pesquisas na web. O objetivo desses instrumentos foi, além de identificar outras contribuições sobre mecanismos de avaliação da transparência pública que estejam aquém ou além do que a lei determinar, verificar possíveis dificuldades enfrentadas em cada sistemática e as vantagens de utilizá-la. Mediante análise qualitativa, com a aplicação da técnica de análise de conteúdo, foi possível descrever, identificar e interpretar, a partir das categorizações: critérios de avaliação, participação social, usabilidade e outras informações relevantes, aspectos primordiais sobre boas práticas em transparência pública. O resultado de todos esses escrutínios culminou em uma matriz para mensuração do índice de transparência pública. Em complementação a ela, elaborou-se um protocolo de conferência de informações, uma matriz sinóptica de avaliação e uma escala de caracterização de resultados. Também foi possível realizar um diagnóstico específico acerca da metodologia no que concerne aos seus critérios e subcritérios. Conclui-se que o aperfeiçoamento de técnicas de avaliação e acompanhamento da aplicação de recursos públicos possibilitará aumentar a transparência governamental, com vistas a avigorar a democracia e fomentar o controle social.

Cette thèse analyse les usages des technologies de l’information dans les organisations et leur influence sur les assemblages de contrôles. Un modèle d’analyse structurationniste des conséquences des usages des technologies fait l’objet d’une adaptation aux assemblages de contrôles. Ce modèle est mobilisé sur un cas d’appropriation d’une technologie de base de données collaborative. Cette étude comprend une phase préliminaire de 34 entretiens. 44 autres entretiens et 14 journées d’observation sont réalisés pour étudier un processus d’appropriation de sept années. La thèse montre que les usages de la technologie s’apparentent à une négociation aboutissant à la révision des contrôles utilisés. Deux changements sont mis en avant. D’un côté, on assiste à l’actualisation des contrôles administratifs qui se coalisent pour obtenir une reddition de comptes systématique et spontanée des individus. De l’autre, on assiste à une dissolution des contrôles sociaux et à un repositionnement des dispositifs intégratifs au carrefour du contrôle social et administratif. Ces changements traduisent la diffusion d’une logique comptable avancée dans l’organisation. / This dissertation analyses information based technologies usages in organizations and their influence on control assemblages.An existing structurational view of technology usages consequences is adapted to an approach of control that is also informed by structurational principles. The resulting model of analysis is mobilised for studying a collaborative technology appropriation process. A preliminary study based on 34 interviews is carried out to outline the appropriation context of this technology. The main case study is grounded on 44 interviews and 14 days of non participative observations.This research shows that usages as they develop, are similar to successive negotiation steps that progressively revise control. This process entails two main revisions. On the one hand, administrative control can be seen as updated as they coalise to obtain a systematic and spontaneous reporting from individuals. On the other hand, appropriation brings the dissolution of social control and integrative devices split from the group they originate from. These revisions can be seen as the diffusion of an advanced 360° accounting logic.

Cette réflexion aborde la protection de l’enfance sous un autre angle que celui présenté par les pouvoirs publics. Sa singularité repose sur sa manière de montrer la mise en place progressive des mécanismes de protection de l’enfance. Elle décrit les rapports qu’entretiennent la famille et les pouvoirs publics : État, collectivités locales ; soulève les raisons réelles de leur l’intervention en décrivent les mécanismes ayant entraîné l’assentiment de la famille au projet de vie collective représenté par l’éducation et l’accession des enfants à l’autonomie. Si cette implication peut être salutaire, elle entraine aussi une fragilisation des parents déjà affaiblis par des difficultés sociale et professionnelle. Cette thèse explore certains aspects non évoqués qui constituent pourtant un danger pour les enfants. Elle s’appuie sur deux éléments : il s’agit des données sur l’enfance en danger recueillies par l’Antenne enfance ado et des dispositifs de prise en charge élaborée par le Conseil général du Doubs. Les manquements observés supposent une refonte de la protection de l’enfance dans la manière de considérer la famille. / This reflection approaches the child welfare under another angle than that presented by public authorities. Its peculiarity bases on the way it shows the progressive implementation of the mechanisms of child welfare. It describes the connections that maintain the family and the public authorities: state, local authorities; raise the real reasons of them the intervention describe mechanisms having pulled the approval of the family in the plan of collective life represented by the education and the entry of the children in the autonomy. If this implication can be wholesome, it also entraine an embrittlement of the parents already weakened by social and professional difficulties. This thesis investigates certain not evoked aspects which constitute nevertheless a danger for the children.It leans on two elements: it is about data on the childhood in danger collected by the Office childhood teenager and devices of care elaborated by the General Council of the Doubs. The observed breaches suppose a revision of the child welfare in the way of considering the family.

This is a Nigerian study, which initially aimed to examine armed robbery culture and the youth subculture. With the employment of subcultural theory, the study became intellectually unviable in explaining the primary data. A replacement was made by seeking recourse to anomie-strain theory and control theory to explain the data. Presently, the main aim of this study is to examine the involvement of youths in armed robbery. Specifically, the study will look at armed robbery from the point of view of offenders and the factors responsible for their crime.Armed robbery is a type of robbery aided by weapon(s) to threaten, force and deprive a person or persons of the right to private, public or corporate belongings. Since the end of the Nigeria civil war (1967-1970), the offence has become a problem in the country, occurring almost on a daily basis in the urban areas more than the rural. Armed robbery can take place in residential homes, commercial places, motorways and any other place the offenders may deem necessary to operate. The current criminal climate has made it possible for armed robbers to engage in interstate criminal operations as well.Methodologically, the research is qualitative, involving semi-structured face-to-face oral interviews (open-ended) with 20 armed robbers in prison custody in Nigeria. There is also an unstructured interview with 4 members of the criminal justice system in Nigeria. The analytical framework employed is interpretive phenomenology, to capture the holistic worldview of the offender sample. Secondary data comes from both the Nigeria Police Force and the Nigeria Prison Service records.Findings are presented under four systematic themes: family circumstances, economic motivations, life course engagement, and situational dynamics in carrying out a robbery. Data reveal the four most significant factors in the hierarchy of response (bad friends, money, poverty and corruption) that may account for the involvement of youths in armed robbery. Since the group of “bad friends” is the main catalyst responsible for the involvement of youths in armed robbery, the thesis concludes that this sample of respondents be regarded as a network of criminals who were strained by the unjust social structure in their native Nigeria. Besides, there is need for a Nigerian criminological theoretical framework that offers an in-depth explanation of crime in the Nigerian society.

This non-experimental study examines the issues of over-representation of minorities in the criminal justice system due to drug-related incidences, race relations, and the impact such representation has on families, children, and communities. The exploration of the current criminal justice efforts against drugs is presented through a meta-analysis qualitative lens in an effort to disseminate the information on those arrested, sentenced, and subsequently incarcerated for various drug offenses. In an attempt to understand the encyclical racial disparities that promulgate the criminal justice system, the study relies on information from several key theorists to cement the discussions in the research. Qualitative data from scholastic and governmental resources will be presented from which the exploration of how drug sentencing and race may be closely related. By examining various case studies, both historical and current, the goal is to clarify the various processes on which different actions have attempted to transform social relationships and the various constraints these movements faced when trying to implement and adapt these transformations. The outcomes of this multi-layered study reveal the evolution of race relations and "identity formation" with which America attempts to change through various systematic processes. The study will examine how the implementation of governmental programs on incarceration impacts social classes and increases racial division. Three research strategies will be utilized: (1) qualitative analysis that covers racism from the media's portrayal of minorities, (2) review of the writings of theorists' addressing whether drug-related crimes or racism adds to disparity in the criminal justice system, and (3) examination of multiple case studies dealing with incarcerations' impact on minority children and communities. Data have been gathered from pre-published reports, newspapers, journals, and experiments conducted by social science theorists dealing with the new drug war and racism, and also the practices of restorative justice. This study suggests that racism is a phenomenon in the lives of every American or immigrant. Even with time and evident changes within society, racism still dominates and determines people's lives. Restoration is not inconsequential, and while various movements link social change with the governing of a new and different leader in America, this study will look at how it is possible to revisit race relations, and implement forgiveness through conflict resolution in an effort to enact systematic changes. These enactments have potential to preserve institutions and save future social infrastructure.

Submitted by Biblioteca Central (biblioteca@unicap.br) on 2017-11-30T18:26:45Z No. of bitstreams: 1 erico_bruno_galvao_freitas.pdf: 1525885 bytes, checksum: 729a8428a98000e3bbcba720447c734e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-30T18:26:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 erico_bruno_galvao_freitas.pdf: 1525885 bytes, checksum: 729a8428a98000e3bbcba720447c734e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-08-07 / This research aims to examine the practical instrumentality of prosecution (private) subsidiary in crimes against nature, because it is a constitutional guarantee that enables external control of public prosecution. The process, including criminal, is one of the foundations of the structure of the penal social control, which has the important mission to functioning as a dialectical field that aims to correct application of criminal law, the proportionality of the sanctions, and, above all, verification of effective injury and legitimacy of the legal interest protected by the law, especially those indivisible and that refer to indeterminate subjects, such as the environmental legal interest. Therefore, the adequacy of the criminal procedure institutes will be examined in particular the extraordinary legitimation by the prosecution (private) subsidiary in crimes against nature. Under this approach, the structural bases will be analyzed to guide the relationship between the citizen and the state in the formation of the penal social control, by studying the social factors that imposed to overcome the individualistic conception of the legal-criminal fine for a criminal protection of property legal supraindividualista, which resulted in changes in the procedural sphere, especially regarding the entitlement to exercise the right of action. Then, in order to delimit the object of study of this work will address the issue of legal protection of the environment by analyzing the formation of the environmental legal interest and recognition of the criminal offense by the law of environmental crimes. At the end, after a theoretical study on the right of action, the instrumentality of access to justice by the extraordinary prosecution subsidiary legitimacy will be discussed, in order to verify the feasibility of the replacement procedure on environmental crimes; possible collective extraordinary standing to their promotion; and its systemic operation. / A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar a instrumentalidade da ação penal privada subsidiária nos crimes contra a natureza, por se tratar de uma garantia constitucional que possibilita o controle externo da ação penal pública. O processo, dentre eles o penal, constitui uma das bases da estruturação do controle social penal, o qual detém a importante missão de funcionar como um campo dialético que visa à correta aplicação da norma penal, a proporcionalidade das sanções, e, sobretudo, a verificação da efetiva lesão e legitimidade do bem jurídico tutelado pela lei, mormente aqueles indivisíveis e que se referem a sujeitos indetermináveis, como é o caso do bem jurídico ambiental. Para tanto, analisar-se-á a adequação dos institutos processuais penais, em especial a legitimação extraordinária pela ação penal (privada) subsidiária nos crimes contra a natureza. Sob este enfoque, são analisadas as bases estruturantes que orientam a relação entre o cidadão e o Estado na formação do controle social penal, estudando-se os fatores sociais que impuseram a superação da concepção individualista do bem jurídico-penal para uma proteção penal de bens jurídicos supraindividualista, que culminaram em mudanças na esfera processual, especialmente no tocante à titularidade para o exercício do direito de ação. Em seguida, com o intuito de delimitar o objeto de estudo do presente trabalho, tratar-se-á a questão da tutela jurídica do meio ambiente através da análise da formação do bem jurídico ambiental e do reconhecimento da sua dignidade penal através da lei dos crimes ambientais. Ao final, após uma revisitação teórica sobre o direito de ação, é discutida a instrumentalidade do acesso à justiça pela legitimação extraordinária da ação penal subsidiária, com intuito de verificar a viabilidade da substituição processual nos crimes ambientais, os possíveis legitimados extraordinários coletivos para sua promoção e sua operacionalidade sistêmica.

Submitted by Ricardo Cedraz Duque Moliterno (ricardo.moliterno@uefs.br) on 2016-10-04T21:15:12Z No. of bitstreams: 1 carolinactg.pdf: 1825671 bytes, checksum: 240fecd0c706da1635555c608ae4db08 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-04T21:15:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 carolinactg.pdf: 1825671 bytes, checksum: 240fecd0c706da1635555c608ae4db08 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-03-27 / Funda??o de Amparo ? Pesquisa do Estado da Bahia - FAPEB / Research on the practices of SUS management in Primary Care in the city of Alagoinhas-BA, whose aims were understand the sense and/or the meaning on the care management in Primary Heath Care, considering the participation of managers, health workers and users in Primary Care in the city of Alagoinhas ?BA; analyze the practice of the SUS management in Primary Care and discuss the competence and attribution of the municipal government (managers, health workers and householders), policies and 'new' models of health in Primary Care. Qualitative research, with family health units as investigation field. The participant subjects in the study were divided into four groups: Group I, managers; Group II, health workers; Group III, users; Group IV, key informants, in total 26 participants. We used systematic observation, semi-structured interviews and document analysis as data collection techniques. The method of data analysis was an approximation with Hermeneutics-dialectical, from which were drawn three categories of analysis: categorical-Practice of management in Primary Health Care: sense and meaning; category 2-A orchestra-'ideal' of rationality, hegemonic order and productive and category 3-social Control: in search of democracy. According to the survey results, the SUS management practices in Primary Care of Alagoinhas-BA municipality occur disjointed among user subjects, health workers and managers, characterized by the centralization of decision-making power of managers to the detriment of the interests of users and workers, reflecting the fragility of the citizenship exercise. Thus, social control, permanent education and health planning as a tool for sharing of power among subjects has only been theorized, reproducing one centralized management, since the senses and meanings for the management sometimes approach, sometimes depart from the practices of the involved participants. In the subject understanding, the management practices should be established in the user-centered model of health to provide the best service to users. However, these manager practices are still rooted in the hegemonic model, focused in normative planning. Regarding to the workers, there is a double understanding: the planning owns features of normative focus and a small part in the situational-local strategic focus. However, the workers practices have been developed in care model of Programmatic Actions, welcome and user participation in the work process. The social participation occurs in the county through the Municipal Health Council and community neighborhood Association. Faced with such reality, the practices of health management in the county of Alagoinhas are stuck to the model of a Taylorist management, although of starting hearing the echo of co-management in family health Units. / Estudo sobre as pr?ticas de gest?o do SUS na Aten??o B?sica no munic?pio de Alagoinhas-BA, cujos os objetivos foram Compreender o(s) sentido(s) e/ou significado(s) sobre a gest?o do cuidado na Aten??o B?sica de Sa?de, considerando-se a participa??o dos gestores, trabalhadores de sa?de e usu?rios da Aten??o B?sica no munic?pio de Alagoinhas-BA; analisar a pr?tica de gest?o do SUS na Aten??o B?sica e discutir a(s) compet?ncia(s) e a(s) atribui??o(?es) do governo municipal (gestores, trabalhadores de sa?de e mun?cipes) as pol?ticas e ?novos? modelos de sa?de na Aten??o B?sica. Pesquisa qualitativa, tendo como campo de investiga??o as unidades sa?de da fam?lia. Os sujeitos participantes do estudo foram divididos em quatro grupos: Grupo I, gestores; Grupo II, trabalhadores de sa?de; Grupo III, usu?rios; Grupo IV, informantes-chave, no total 26 participantes. Como t?cnicas de coleta dos dados utilizamos observa??o sistem?tica, entrevista semi-estruturada e an?lise de documentos. O m?todo de an?lise de dados foi uma aproxima??o com a Hermen?utica-dial?tica, a partir do qual foram elaboradas tr?s categorias de an?lise: categoria1-Pr?tica da Gest?o na Aten??o B?sica de Sa?de: sentidos e significados; categoria 2-A orquestra ?ideal? da racionalidade, ordem hegem?nica e produtiva e categoria 3-Controle social: em busca da democracia. De acordo com os resultados da pesquisa, as pr?ticas de gest?o do SUS na Aten??o B?sica do munic?pio de Alagoinhas-BA ocorrem desarticuladas entre os sujeitos usu?rios, trabalhadores de sa?de e gestores, caracterizada pela centraliza??o do poder de decis?o dos gestores em detrimento dos interesses dos usu?rios e trabalhadores, traduzindo a fragilidade do exerc?cio da cidadania. Desse modo, o controle social, a educa??o permanente e o planejamento em sa?de como instrumentos de partilhamento do poder entre sujeitos tem sido apenas teorizado, reproduzindo uma gest?o centralizada, j? que os sentidos e significados para gest?o ora aproximam, ora se afastam das pr?ticas dos sujeitos envolvidos. Na compreens?o dos sujeitos, as pr?ticas de gest?o devem ser baseadas no modelo de sa?de usu?rio-centrado para proporcionar o melhor atendimento aos usu?rios. No entanto, as pr?ticas dos gestores ainda continuam arraigadas no modelo hegem?nico, focado no planejamento normativo. Quanto aos trabalhadores h? um entendimento duplo: o planejamento possui caracter?sticas do enfoque normativo e uma pequena parte no enfoque estrat?gico situacional local. Contudo, as pr?ticas dos trabalhadores tem sido desenvolvidas no modelo de aten??o das A??es Program?ticas, acolhimento e participa??o dos usu?rios no processo de trabalho. A participa??o social ocorre no munic?pio atrav?s do Conselho Municipal de Sa?de e Associa??o comunit?ria de bairro. Diante de tal realidade, as pr?ticas de gest?o em sa?de no munic?pio de Alagoinhas encontram-se presas ao modelo de uma gest?o Taylorista, apesar de come?ar a ouvir o eco da co-gest?o nas Unidades de sa?de da fam?lia.

Au-delà des fantasmes persistants qui entourent la police napoléonienne et son ministre Fouché, aucune étude d'ensemble n'avait encore été consacrée à la «haute police» entre 1799 et 1814. La période du Consulat et de l'Empire est capitale. Elle voit en effet la naissance d'une «haute police», qui ne constitue pas une entité policière spécifique, mais une mission : assurer la survie de l'État et de son chef, par la mise à l'écart des individus perçus comme dangereux. Les «mesures de haute police» prennent une triple forme : surveillance préventive, détention sans jugement, et envoi en «surveillance spéciale» (résidence surveillée). Les discours des autorités justifient l'existence de ces mesures extrajudiciaires et extralégales par la mise en scène d'une menace présentée comme exceptionnelle, et par la nécessité de rassurer, stabiliser et unifier. La «haute police» prend alors une place centrale dans le processus de contrôle de l'esprit public et de renforcement du pouvoir. Napoléon occupe ainsi un rôle croissant dans le contrôle et l'orientation d'une action policière tout entière tournée vers la sauvegarde de sa propre personne. L'élaboration policière de critères de dangerosité en partie nouveaux, imbriquant contrôle politique et contrôle social, permet de construire une surveillance à l'intention panoptique. Cette recherche croise histoire des représentations et histoire «par le bas», au plus près du terrain. Elle remet en cause la vision verticale d'un régime policier, puisque la surveillance préventive s'appuie aussi sur une participation populaire, et que, d'autre part, son efficacité peut être nuancée, à l'échelle de l'Empire. / Beyond the enduring fantasies surrnunding the Napoleonic police and its Minister Fouché, no overall study had yet been devoted to the "high police" between 1799 and 1814. The period of the Consulate and the Empire is crucial, with the birth of a "high police", which did not consist in a specific police entity, but a mission: to ensure the survival of the State and its leader by removing individuals seen a dangerous. "High police measures" took three forms: preventive surveillance, detention without trial, and placing under "special surveillance" (house arrest). The authorities' speeches justified the existence of these extrajudicial and extra-legal measures by staging a threat - presented as exception. - and by introducing the need to reassure, stabilize and unify people. The "high police" then took a central place in the process of controlling the public mind and strengthening the power. Napoleon thus occupied an increasing role in the control and orientation of a police action entirely aiming at protecting his own person.The police development of partially new criteria on dangerousness, intertwining both political and social control, made it possible to build a surveillance with a panoptic purpose. This research combines history of representations and history "from below", studied at ground level. It challenges the vertical interpretation of a police regime, since preventive surveillance is also based on popular involvement, and its effectiveness can be qualified, on the scale of the Empire.

L'expulsion – ou déportation –, avant la prison moderne, était la punition de prédilection ; ce châtiment avait l'avantage de permettre l'exclusion définitive de l'individu déviant sans avoir à s'occuper de la personne. Cette peine réapparait comme une nouvelle stratégie de contrôle social et de gestion des populations excédentaires à niveau mondial, et tout particulièrement de la population étrangère dans les pays développés. Le modèle français d’expulsion des étrangers se présente comme un système « hygiénique » et ordonné, symbolisé par les centres de rétention administrative. Une enquête de terrain, réalisée durant six mois dans deux centres de rétention administrative, nous a permis d’examiner la problématique à partir d’une approche empirique inductive, étudiant les caractéristiques et les modes de fonctionnement des instruments spécifiques déployés, pour comprendre l’impact des pratiques et des politiques de contrôle migratoire sur les individus concernés et sur la construction de la société française. Nous analysons également le retour forcé comme une extension du système pénal dont les objectifs formels dépassent l’expulsion effective et qui cherche à établir un mécanisme de contrôle et de gestion de la population migrante en général. / Expulsion or deportation constituted a privileged punishment prior to the modern prison, whose advantage was the definite exclusion of the individual without having to deal with his body. This punishment reappears as a new strategy of social control and of surplus world population management, particularly regarding foreigners in developed countries. The French model of expulsion of foreigners was based on an administrative device presented as a hygienic and tidy system, symbolized by the administrative retention centers. By means of a six-month-ethnographic study carried out at two retention centers near Paris, we analyze this topic with an empirical inductive approach, in which the characteristics and functioning of the displayed instruments are studied, mainly, the confinement of foreigners in administrative retention centers, so as to understand the impact of migratory control practices and policies on both the individuals and on the construction of the French society. In addition, we analyze forced return as an extension of the penal system whose informal objectives transcend effective deportation and aim to establish a device for the control of the migrant population in general.