“…Meanwhile a wealth of studies has addressed decision-making processes of regular police officers, and the issue of ethno-racial profiling in stop-and-search contexts in particular (Holmberg 2000, Waddington et al 2004, Wilson et al 2004, Alpert et al 2005, Dunham 2005, Schafer et al 2006, Stroshine et al 2008, Parmar 2011, Quinton 2011, Fallik and Novak 2012, Tillyer 2012, Mutsaers 2014. Whereas this body of research has provided valuable insights in the way regular police officers exercise their discretion in crime control, border policing officers have a fundamentally different task -as their main focus is migration control -and they are often equipped with powers in both crime control and migration control (Sklansky 2012).…”
“…Meanwhile a wealth of studies has addressed decision-making processes of regular police officers, and the issue of ethno-racial profiling in stop-and-search contexts in particular (Holmberg 2000, Waddington et al 2004, Wilson et al 2004, Alpert et al 2005, Dunham 2005, Schafer et al 2006, Stroshine et al 2008, Parmar 2011, Quinton 2011, Fallik and Novak 2012, Tillyer 2012, Mutsaers 2014. Whereas this body of research has provided valuable insights in the way regular police officers exercise their discretion in crime control, border policing officers have a fundamentally different task -as their main focus is migration control -and they are often equipped with powers in both crime control and migration control (Sklansky 2012).…”
“…For example, in light of significant geopolitical changes after the 1985 Schengen Area Agreement, social scientists working in Europe re-examined "the spatial reconfiguration of immigration control beyond a neat inside/outside cartography" [Coleman, (2012), p.420]. Attention turned to the ways Europe's borders moved into the spaces of everyday life where immigrant groups become subject to increasing surveillance, policing and ethno-racial profiling (Fassin, 2011;Mutsaers, 2014). Yet Europe's border regime has also moved beyond European soil.…”
Section: From External Borders To the Arterial Bordermentioning
This article examines the material and ideological dimensions of what I conceptualise as Mexico's 'arterial border'. Since the late 1980s, transit routes in Mexico's interior have increasingly become sites of a diffused migration enforcement strategy. Based on long-term ethnographic research along Central American transit routes, I examine how the arterial border has developed historically and is experienced by migrants in local contexts. I pay particular attention to the disjuncture between violent encounters with the state and discourses of security, human rights and humanitarianism that serve to legitimise bordering practices. Such an analysis moves beyond understandings of borders as spatially fixed entities to reimagine them as constantly shifting and dynamic sites of state violence, individual agency and contestation.
“…27 Discussing the context in the Netherlands, and drawing on the work of O'Neill and Loftus, 28 Mutsaers also alludes to the working of multiple and interrelated factors. 29 He states: 234 On both sides of the Atlantic migrants are deliberately being targeted for control by a growing number of government agencies, semi-public bodies and private companies operating together to counteract the presence of migrants. 30 I further this work by using the framework of assemblages to analyse the surveillance of precarious status migrants for the purpose of tracking migrants as well as deporting those considered`illegal'.…”
Section: Surveillant Assemblages' Of Illegalizationmentioning
Migrants with precarious immigration status in Canada encounter surveillant assemblages of illegalization that threaten their safety and ability to access social goods. Drawing on qualitative interviews, media stories, and government documents, this article analyses how surveillance is produced through various ways of knowing, by various actors, and in different institutions in Canada. My case study demonstrates that the sites of operation for surveillant assemblages of illegalization extend beyond immigration authorities and into more diffuse sources including the police, the health‐care sector, banks, employment agencies, and acquaintances. I also suggest that there is a level of overlap and integration among such sites, including the use of shared databases and the possibility that any interaction with precarious status migrants can be reported to immigration authorities.
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