Contested control at the margins of the state

Eule, Tobias Georg; Loher, David; Wyss, Anna

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2017.1401511

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“…Immigrant status precarity thus always includes a high level of 'stateness', in that both access to and restriction of rights are mediated and managed by the state. In recent years, studying this 'management of migration' through policies and practices has become a central focus of the study of migration (Geiger & Pécoud 2012; Eule et al 2018a), with a particular focus on the interlocking and overlapping institutions that together form a 'migration regime' (Sciortino 2004;Eule et al 2018aEule et al , 2018b. From this perspective, migration control is not only executed through individual bodies of the state explicitly formed to do so, but also by other institutions that deal with immigrants and in some way share tasks with 'classic' control agencies.…”

Section: Migration Precarity Advocacymentioning

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Advice as a Vocation? Politics, Managerialism and State Funding in the Swiss Refugee Support Community

Eule

2020

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Refugees often find themselves in precarious situations when trying to claim asylum. This paper examines the changing nature of legal advice in Switzerland, where a new law is drastically altering the asylum regime to a more centralised and tightly managed procedure. This reform directly affects the refugee advice community, which sees an increase in state funding opportunities paired with a higher demand for quality standards and 'managerial' practices. These changes reveal frictions between advice organisations and challenge long-standing agreements and collaborations. (Re-)emerging fault lines concern whether to collaborate with or oppose the Swiss asylum regimes, and whether to assist with asylum appeals with low chances of success. Structurally and individually, pre-existing notions of 'good advice' are being challenged and threaten to divide the advice community into political advocates and pragmatic caseworkers. The changing nature of advice thus brings with it both pitfalls and new opportunities that require careful examination.

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Section: Migration Precarity Advocacymentioning

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Advice as a Vocation? Politics, Managerialism and State Funding in the Swiss Refugee Support Community

Eule

2020

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“…Thanks to a large-scale analysis of the effects of visa policy on international migration dynamics, Czaika and de Haas (2014) have pointed to a much-needed consideration of policy implementation, given that migration studies have developed around the question of state capacity to control migration and borders. An expanding strand of research has been focusing on the ways in which migration and border control are put into practice (Dörrembäker & Mastenbroek 2017;Ellerman 2009;Eule et al 2017;Jordan et al 2003). In the case of visa policy, the day-to-day implementation has been analysed both from the point of view of visa applicants (Jileva 2007;Gaibazzi 2014) and state actors (Satzewich 2015;Scheel 2017;Zampagni 2013).…”

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How does policy change at the street level? Local knowledge, a community of practice and EU visa policy implementation in Morocco

Infantino

2019

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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She holds a PhD in political and social sciences from the Université Libre de Bruxelles and a PhD in political science, comparative political sociology, from Sciences Po Paris. Her research focuses on migration and border control in practice. She analyses actors and organizations that put control into action by paying particular attention to the circulation of knowledge across levels of policy-making, transnational actors and transnational dynamics of policy change, the involvement of non-state actors in the functions of governments. She has recently published the book 'Schengen Visa Implementation and Transnational Policymaking', Palgrave Macmillan. She is also the author of the book 'Outsourcing Border Control. Politics and Practice of Contracted Visa Policy in Morocco', Palgrave MacMillan, the co-editor of the 2014 Security Dialogue's special issue 'Border Security as Practice' and the author of several articles about the day-today filtering work of borders that is achieved via visa issuing.

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“…The role that individuals grant to documents and the relevance of 'having the right kind' (or not having any) are both of crucial importance when steering through the migration regime. Indeed, refraining from signing documents, the accumulation of documents to provide evidence or destruction of 'relevant' paperwork (Nakueira, this issue), shows how migrant individuals contest this regime, but also underlines the spaces of highly asym metrical power (Eule et al 2018(Eule et al , 2019.…”

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Borrelli

Andreetta

2019

Journal of Legal Anthropology

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In order to better understand migration governance and the concrete, daily practices of civil servants tasked to enforce state laws and policies, this special issue focuses on the core artefact of bureaucratic work: documents, in their diverse manifestations, including certificates, letters, reports, case files, decisions, internal guidelines and judgements. Based on ethnographic studies in various contexts, we show how civil servants produce statehood, restrict migrants’ movements, and engage with migrants’ strategies to make themselves legible. State actors simultaneously limit access to legal statutes and benefits, question their own practices, and use their discretion in order to help themselves as well as migrant individuals. We also highlight organisational and professional differences in the way civil servants deal with migrants, relate to the state and its policies and define their obligations towards both, migrants and the state. This special issue therefore contributes to the study of the state as documentary practice and highlights the role of paperwork as serious practice of migration control.

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Contested control at the margins of the state

Cited by 82 publications

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Advice as a Vocation? Politics, Managerialism and State Funding in the Swiss Refugee Support Community

Advice as a Vocation? Politics, Managerialism and State Funding in the Swiss Refugee Support Community

How does policy change at the street level? Local knowledge, a community of practice and EU visa policy implementation in Morocco

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