Cosmopolitan ‘Hidden Transcripts’? Becoming In/Visible as a Strategy of Migrant Resistance

Cărăuş, Tamara

doi:10.4324/9780429463136-4

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“…Similarly, accounts of migrant invisibility have often analysed invisibility as a strategy pursued by – again, ‘irregular’, ‘undocumented’, ‘illegal’ – migrants as a way to mitigate the risk of deportation or challenge exclusion ( Caraus, 2018 ; Villegas, 2010 ; Wahlström Smith; 2018). Our aims diverge from this approach of conceptualising invisibility as an effect of illegality; indeed, again, many of our participants were not irregular migrants (although some were), and had not arrived in the UK ‘illegally’ either, and yet invisibility was a continuous experience across the life-story narratives we gathered.…”

Section: Migrant Homelessness: the Crisis Before The Crisismentioning

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Cultivated invisibility and migrants’ experiences of homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic

Stewart

Sanders

2022

The Sociological Review

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The UK government’s Everyone In scheme, announced in March 2020, required local authorities to temporarily house all homeless individuals in their area regardless of immigration status. In providing support through safe and secure accommodation, Everyone In also provided a crucial moment of visibility for migrants experiencing homelessness. Yet, just as it provided life-changing opportunities for some, the scheme was not straightforwardly a celebratory moment for migrants. It remained embedded within a wider context of immigration governance and social inequality in the UK, which has both invisibilised migrant homelessness as a crisis and hypervisibilised migrants as undeserving, suspicious or ‘illegal’ subjects. In this article, we explore life-story narratives co-produced with migrants across three urban contexts that capture their experiences of homelessness before and during the pandemic. In doing so, we introduce the notion of cultivated invisibility, referring to a habitual, deeply-ingrained mode of practice through which migrants respond to and navigate their experiences of being read as ‘Other’, in racialised or classed terms. It is developed through conditions of material scarcity and in the course of multiple engagements with racial capitalism’s various ‘faces of the state’ in an increasingly hostile environment for migrants. Cultivated invisibility involves staying on the move and blending into the crowd or avoiding it altogether but it also includes the experience of being unseen despite having come forward for help. Importantly, we demonstrate that cultivated invisibility becomes a cause of illegalisation, just as much as a response to it.

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Section: Migrant Homelessness: the Crisis Before The Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%

Cultivated invisibility and migrants’ experiences of homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic

Stewart

Sanders

2022

The Sociological Review

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“…Furthermore, the use of migrants for political purposes by Greece and Turkey which plays a significant role at the Evros border is examined. Several authors have employed the concept of (in)visibility to look at migration governance practices and the contestation of these practices (see Caraus, 54 De Vries, 55 Mountz, 56 Pellander & Horsti, 57 and Schreiber 58 ). Yet, the academic literature on (in)visibility and migration governance is fragmented, and the concept is understood and used in diverse ways by different authors.…”

Section: The Visibility Regimes Surrounding Pushbacks In Greecementioning

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Where the law loses its function: the contested politics of visibility surrounding pushbacks at the EU border in Greece

Reißig¹

2022

Crimmigratie &Amp; Recht

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“…Everyday resistance (Scott, 1985) has been studied widely, not least among migrants in undocumented (Caraus, 2018; Ellerman, 2010) and temporary conditions (McLaughlin, 2010). Cohen and Hjalmarson (2020) have analysed migrant farmworkers’ preference for subtle resistance demonstrating the migrant workers’ awareness of the potential consequences of overt protest such as the termination of work and deportation.…”

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“…Scholarly interest in refugees' and undocumented migrants' struggles in border zones and cityscapes has been extensive (e.g. Ataç, 2016;Caraus, 2018;Erensu, 2016;Näre, 2018), while the everyday implications of the border regime and resistance towards it have received scarce inquiry in the context of migrants conceptualised within the framework of so-called highly skilled migration. This article fills this research gap by examining how non-EU/EEA student-migrants, often perceived as a vehicle for highly skilled migration (Kahanec and Králiková, 2011;Suter and Jandl, 2006), challenge administrative bordering in their attempts to secure their right to reside in Finland. Student migration is continuously on the rise both globally and in Finland (OECD, 2019), and it offers a productive angle for studying the everyday impacts of the border regime in migrants' lives.…”

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Ambivalent Strategies: Student-Migrant-Workers’ Efforts at Challenging Administrative Bordering

Maury¹

2021

Sociology

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Migrants’ struggles against borders have been examined extensively among refugees and undocumented migrants, whereas the everyday struggles in contexts of administrative bordering have remained insufficiently examined within the framework of so-called highly skilled migration. Drawing on in-depth interviews (N=34) with migrants holding a student residence permit in Finland, this article addresses the means of challenging administrative borders in a constrained situation produced by the border regime. I argue that student-migrant-workers employ pragmatic strategies by making use of the legal framework to secure their right to residence. However, the efforts at circumventing the constraints of the border regime often become re-inscribed within the framework of capitalist production, displaying the ambivalence of migrant practices. This article contributes to the scarce sociological literature on the struggles around administrative borders and the vague scholarly inquiry into student-migrants' efforts at challenging migration control.

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Cosmopolitan ‘Hidden Transcripts’? Becoming In/Visible as a Strategy of Migrant Resistance

Cited by 3 publications

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Cultivated invisibility and migrants’ experiences of homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic

Cultivated invisibility and migrants’ experiences of homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic

Where the law loses its function: the contested politics of visibility surrounding pushbacks at the EU border in Greece

Ambivalent Strategies: Student-Migrant-Workers’ Efforts at Challenging Administrative Bordering

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