The navigation of good care for forensic psychiatric inpatients who face mandatory repatriation from the Netherlands: An ethnographic study.

This ethnographic study examines the challenges associated with forensic psychiatric care for patients with a migration background in Dutch Centre for Transcultural Psychiatry Veldzicht. As a result of their criminal offence, these patients, translated here as 'TBS foreigners', have been declared 'unwanted' by the Dutch immigration services and face repatriation to their country of origin. Through contextual policy-analysis, participant observation and fifteen semi-structured interviews conducted between February and May 2023, we found that professional conduct on TBS foreigners' wards is increasingly curtailed by the Dutch legal infrastructure and the clinic's socio-material environment.