Constructions of Deportability in Sweden. Refused Asylum Seekers’ Experiences in Relation to Gender, Family Life, and Reproduction

Sager, Maja

doi:10.1080/08038740.2015.1093021

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“…Some researchers stress the political nature of conducting studies with undocumented children and argue that researchers are politically implicated in the field of inquiry (Sager 2016). De Genova holds that researchers have ethical responsibilities to critique their own 'complicities with the ongoing nationalisation of society ' (De Genova 2013, 252).…”

Section: Militant and Activist Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some scholars of undocumented migration detail how they take on dual positions as activists and researchers in these contexts. They attend demonstrations with participants, contribute to public opinion in news media, promote migrants' rights in policy-developments and human rights forums, and act as support persons to individual research respondents (Sager 2016;Lind 2017b). The co-construction of the research field knowledge is readily acknowledged as an integral part of these studies, including the importance of aligning oneself with the political struggles of participants.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Challenging the deportation regime: reflections on the research encounter with undocumented refugee children in Sweden

Smith

2020

Children's Geographies

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This article examines the researcher's potential role and responsibility to facilitate undocumented refugee children's political voice and participation. The paper raises issues of the social status and position scholars give to children in research and epistemological concerns regarding the coproduction of children's political assertions in the research encounter. Based on anthropological and participatory research with undocumented refugee children, the article shows that children were often withholding their suffering from family members and it was novel for children to talk openly about their situations with the researcher. However, as trusting relationships developed, children came to formulate and express a social critique of their undocumented situations. Based on children's accounts, the research project engaged with a range of public actors to promote critical dialogue around these children and contribute to societal practice. It is argued that children's lived rights and politics are properly acknowledged when researchers facilitate children's political engagements.

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Section: Militant and Activist Researchmentioning

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Section: Militant and Activist Researchmentioning

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Challenging the deportation regime: reflections on the research encounter with undocumented refugee children in Sweden

Smith

2020

Children's Geographies

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“…As a consequence, they were trapped in a "space of forced invisibility, exclusion, subjugation, and repression" (De Genova 2002, 427), a space shaped by the persistent experience of deportability. This imposed condition of vulnerability intersected with-and at the same time was produced by-hierarchies of sexuality and gender, along with race, class, and nationality (among other factors), which structured their positions both in the labor market and in intimate relationships (Sager 2016), maximizing their exposure to violence, abuse, and exploitation.…”

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confidence: 99%

Voices from the Inside: Lived Experiences of Women Confined in a Detention Center

Esposito¹,

Ornelas²,

Scirocchi³

et al. 2019

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society

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Confined in a Detention Center U nder conditions of mass mobility, migration-related detention has become part of a set of border control measures that are implemented in the majority of countries across the world, particularly in the global North (Bosworth 2014; Bosworth and Kellezi 2014). The proliferation of border zones and detention centers-where various categories of people marked as outsiders are confined pending the adjudication of their statusplays a key role in the government of human mobility and in the continuous production of nation-state and citizenship boundaries (Luibhéid 2005). In spite of growing academic interest in the adverse effects of detention and deportation (e.g., Sobhanian et al. 2006; Robjant, Robbins, and Senior 2009), relatively little attention has been paid to the potential relationships between the violence that affects people in their countries of origin and contemporary immigration laws and policies (Lykes and Hershberg 2015). Even less effort has been devoted to understanding how gender and sexualityalong with race, ethnicity, class, nationality, and geopolitics-shape such relationships, playing a role in the production of particular subjects as excludable and deportable (Lewis 2013). As Eithne Luibhéid (2005) clearly notes, multiaxial differentiations that operate through immigration control regimes not only distinguish citizens from noncitizens but also discriminate among noncitizens themselves, stemming from and reinforcing normative power hierarchies. This research was carried out as a part of Francesca Esposito's doctoral thesis, supported by a scholarship from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (SFRH/BD/ 87854/2012). We would like to thank Maayan Ravid, Rimple Mehta, Gaia Giuliani, Simone Tulumello, and Erica Briozzo for their encouragement for this project by offering their time and insightful feedback, as well as Signs's editor and anonymous reviewers who provided critical comments on this article. We also need to thank the organizers and participants of the workshop "Critical Prison Studies, Carceral Ethnography, and Human Rights: From Lived Experience to Global Action," held at the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, where we presented an earlier version of this article, for their generous input and comments. Last, and most important, we are grateful to the BeFree team and to the women we met inside Rome's detention center for sharing their stories and struggles with us.

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“…It further aligns with noted tendencies among men to maintain that to the degree that gender inequality is a problem, it does not pertain to ‘good guys’ such as themselves, who do not need to change (Adelabu, ; Pease, ). Simultaneously, it may further marginalise vulnerable groups and feed into xenophobic anti‐immigration discourses, while construing IPVAW as imported to Sweden and the EU through immigration (Montoya & Rolandsen Agustín, ) and thus as literally deportable (Sager, ).…”

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The Nordic Paradox and intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) in Sweden: A background overview

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The global public health problem of intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) is typically tied to gender inequality. Contrary to what would be expected, however, a 2012 survey conducted by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) showed lifetime prevalence rates of IPVAW in the Nordic countries which were among the highest of the 28 EU member states, despite these countries being rated as some of the most gender‐equal in the world. The aim of this article is to enable a furthered understanding of this Nordic Paradox through providing an overview of knowledge about IPVAW in Sweden in relation to the apparent paradox. It assembles information on IPVAW prevalence, on Sweden's legal and policy framework, on perceived remaining challenges and limitations in responses to IPVAW, and on potential explanations for the Nordic Paradox as expressed in previous research. We conclude that a clear resolution to the Nordic Paradox has not yet been established. Further research is therefore needed.

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Constructions of Deportability in Sweden. Refused Asylum Seekers’ Experiences in Relation to Gender, Family Life, and Reproduction

Cited by 12 publications

References 11 publications

Challenging the deportation regime: reflections on the research encounter with undocumented refugee children in Sweden

Challenging the deportation regime: reflections on the research encounter with undocumented refugee children in Sweden

Voices from the Inside: Lived Experiences of Women Confined in a Detention Center

The Nordic Paradox and intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) in Sweden: A background overview

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