La Expulsión de Extranjeros en el Derecho Penal: Una realidad en Espa？a, una posibilidad en Chile

this article analyzes -from a criminal law perspective- the establishment of the expulsion of foreigners, which has been installed in a new way in the bill amending law no18.216, regarding alternative measures to imprisonment. the author identifies and compares this establishment with the current one in the spanish criminal law of 1995, which he considers as a direct source; he also describes and appreciates the history of this establishment, its legal nature, scope, legal purposes, and its possible criminal policy aims. finally, he draws a series of critical conclusions on the expulsion of foreigners.