Critical approaches to transit migration

Collyer, Michael; Düvell, Franck; Haas, Hein de

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“…In migrant mobility studies, ample scholarly accounts have shown that it is too simplistic to think of migration in linear terms, starting with migrants leaving a sending state, going through their arriving in a host-state, and ending with their integration or assimilation in a host-state (Meeus 2012;Robertson 2014). By now it has been acknowledged that migrants can spend years in transit without having their temporary status resolved (Collyer, Düvell, and de Haas 2012). Their lives can evolve around single or multiple loops of circular migration, considered bringing a 'triple win solution' of benefits to sending, host-states, and migrants themselves (Wickramasekara 2011;Triandafyllidou 2013).…”

Section: Focus On Context: Spatial and Temporal Dimensionsmentioning

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Diaspora mobilisation for conflict and post-conflict reconstruction: contextual and comparative dimensions

Koinova¹

2017

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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This special issue seeks to move the scholarly conversation beyond notions of conflict-generated diasporas as simply agents of conflict or peace. The field is ripe to unpack the notion of context for diaspora mobilisation in International Relations, the focus and novelty of this special issue. Theorising in this volume goes beyond current prevalent thinking that contexts are host-states in which diasporas live, and original home-states to which they are transnationally connected. The emphasis here is that diasporas have linkages to different contexts, and that their embeddedness in these contexts -simultaneously or sequentially in time -either shapes their mobilizations or is shaped by them. The volume theorises about spatialities and temporalities of diaspora engagement: it emphasises spatial notions such as multi-sited embeddedness, positionality, and translocalism on the one side, and temporal notions such as critical junctures, transformative events, simultaneity, crises, and durability of conflicts on the other. This collection further adds new thematic areas to current scholarly inquiry, opening the discussion beyond interest in diaspora remittances, economic development, and extraterritorial voting. The authors take little-explored paths to examine diasporas as agents in transitional justice processes, contested sovereignty, and fragile and de facto states, as well as in civic and ethnic-based activism.

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Section: Focus On Context: Spatial and Temporal Dimensionsmentioning

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Diaspora mobilisation for conflict and post-conflict reconstruction: contextual and comparative dimensions

Koinova¹

2017

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…Another important shift in the nature of migrant entry practices was an increase in people arriving with EU passports from 2000 onwards through a process of 'transit migration' (Collyer, Düvell, and De Haas 2010). EU citizenship emerged as essential in the formation of complex transnational social spaces among Latin Americans with regularisation being a core element in their construction as civic capital was accumulated and converted and citizenship attained (McIlwaine 2012).…”

Section: Creating Webs Of (Ir)regularity: Migrant Entry and Regularismentioning

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Legal Latins: Creating Webs and Practices of Immigration Status among Latin American Migrants in London

McIlwaine¹

2014

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Despite an increasingly globalised world, the effects of ever more restrictive barriers to people's movement result in people developing complex and innovative ways to enter and settle in countries beyond their own. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative research with Latin Americans in London from a range of nationalities and socioeconomic backgrounds, this paper examines how migrants across the spectrum of immigration statuses have responded to these restrictions with a particular focus on negotiating irregularity. Through analysing how migrants develop a range of entry, regularisation as well as spatial, economic and social invisibility practices as they arrive and settle, the paper challenges a binary hierarchy of immigration status and subsequent well-being. Instead, it argues that conceptualising these as the creation of webs encapsulates the complexity and dynamism of migrant irregularity as migrants negotiate from above and below. The paper highlights how these webs and practices emerge from below in innovative ways that entail negotiation of fluid migration regimes that structure a wider context of exclusion within which migrants can exercise agency from below.

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“…Transit migration is a highly debated topic in policy arenas and academia (Düvell 2006;Collyer, Düvell and de Haas 2012;Papadopoulou-Kourkoula 2008). In general, this debate has a simplistic and linear understanding of migration as if migrants depart, go through a transit phase, and settle afterwards (see for similar critical comments Collyer, Düvell and de Haas 2012).…”

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Mobilities and Sediments: Spatial Dynamics in the Context of Contemporary Sub-Saharan African Migration to Europe

Schapendonk

2012

Afr Diaspora

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Contemporary African migration to the European Union (EU) is triggered by global interconnectedness, but at the same time it is opposed by the hard borders of the EU. As a consequence, subSaharan African migrants often undertake fragmented and dangerous journeys to the North. These journeys are mainly discussed with regard to the rather linear notion of transit migration (as if migrants depart, go through a transit phase and settle afterwards). In this paper I take a different perspective by approaching migrants' journeys as open and dynamic phenomena that evolve 'en route'. I present an analytical lens that takes different mobilities (of people, goods, information, etc.) as the starting point to investigate these migration journeys. With this mobilities lens I analyze in detail three trajectories of African migrants who are moving to the EU. In order to avoid a simple 'everything is mobile' argument, I subsequently explore the role of the geographical concept of 'place' in the facilitation of these migration journeys. I thereby take into account places as geographical localities as well as migrants' places in their social networks. Finally, I illustrate how mobilities, in turn, bring their 'sediments'. This means that they change and give meaning to places. This reciprocal way of relating mobilities to places helps us to go beyond both individualistic and structuralistic explanations of migration. évoluent 'en route', l'auteur prend, dans cet article, une perspective différente. Dans son analyse, les différentes mobilités (de personnes, de biens, d'idées, etc.) constituent le point de départ de l'investigation sur le parcours migratoire. Grâce à cette optique, il analyse minutieusement trois trajectoires d'immigrants africains qui se déplacent vers l'Europe. Pour éviter un argument simplifié du genre 'tout est mobilité', il s'interroge, par la suite, sur le rôle que la notion géographique de 'lieu' joue dans la facilitation de voyages; tout en tenant en compte du fait que ces 'lieux' peuvent être des localités géographiques bien comme des lieux dans les réseaux sociaux des immigrants. Enfin, l'auteur montre comment les mobilités véhiculent aussi leurs propres 'sédiments'. Cela veut dire qu'elles sont aussi capables de changer et de définir les lieux. Cette manière réci-proque d'envisager le rapport mobilités et lieux incite le lecteur à regarder au-delà des définitions individualistes et structuralistes qui existent autour de la notion de migration.

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Critical approaches to transit migration

Cited by 136 publications

References 10 publications

Diaspora mobilisation for conflict and post-conflict reconstruction: contextual and comparative dimensions

Diaspora mobilisation for conflict and post-conflict reconstruction: contextual and comparative dimensions

Legal Latins: Creating Webs and Practices of Immigration Status among Latin American Migrants in London

Mobilities and Sediments: Spatial Dynamics in the Context of Contemporary Sub-Saharan African Migration to Europe

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