Denaturalizing "Camps": Überwachen und Entschleunigen in der Schengener Ägäis-Zone

Panagiotidis, Efthimia; Tsianos, Vassilis S.; Forschungsgruppe, Transit Migration

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“…We interpreted this policy not as a means to stop the movements as the migrants were even obliged to travel on by the 'release permit'. The procedure rather has to be seen as a catalyst of irregularisation and transit migration in a highly disfranchised way (Panagiotidis and Tsianos, 2007).…”

Section: Migrants' Biographies: 'Caught In Mobility'mentioning

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De‐naturalising transit migration. Theory and methods of an ethnographic regime analysis

Heß¹

2010

Population Space and Place

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Against the background of the research project entitled ‘Transit Migration’ (2002–2004), on migration regimes in Turkey, Greece and the Balkan region, the article will discuss methodological and conceptual problems and challenges of qualitative studies of transit migration. By analysing diverse practices and conditions of ‘transit migrations’ the article will argue against attempts to qualitatively define the phenomena. Rather, it suggests applying the concept of ‘precarious transit zone’ in order to grasp the complexity, unsteadiness, and multi‐directionality of many migrational ‘transit‐biographies’. On an ethnographic level the concept of ‘transit zone’ allows a consideration of different figures of transit migrants from those in the traditional sense of the term, visa‐overstayers or rejected asylum seekers transiting diverse countries on their way forward and increasingly also on their difficult way back to their countries of origin as well as the increasing number of migrants ‘stuck in mobility’. Moreover, the concept urges migration research to adopt an ‘ethnographic regime approach’, which implies a multi‐dimensional research design. It combines ethnographic research with discourse analyses and an analytical focus on the macro level. This shows that transit migration is not only shaped by migration related policies by the EU, nation‐states and international/ intergovernmental organisations, but it is shaped by ‘economies of transit’. Additionally an ethnographic regime approach also analyses the impact of academic research itself in re‐constructing categories used by the governing bodies. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Section: Migrants' Biographies: 'Caught In Mobility'mentioning

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De‐naturalising transit migration. Theory and methods of an ethnographic regime analysis

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2010

Population Space and Place

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“…By denying the relative autonomy that the AoM's proponents attribute to migration the image of the fortress would misrepresent the European border regime as an omnipotent control apparatus (Panagiotidis and Tsianos 2007). The AoM's advocates emphasise in contrast migrants' capacity to subvert border controls.…”

Section: Abandoning Fortress Europe: Thinking Beyond the Dungeon Of Amentioning

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Recuperation through Crisis Talk

Scheel¹

2018

South Atlantic Quarterly

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The diagnosis of a migration crisis has prompted multiple processes of rebordering in Europe and beyond. These include the build-up of physical barriers like walls and fences, the tightening of asylum regimes, the expansion of biometric databases and the enrolment of authoritarian regimes in controlling Europe's borders. These developments have prompted a revival of the image of the 'fortress' in critical accounts of the European border regime. Building on existing criticisms of the metaphor Fortress Europe, this article proposes an alternative political imaginary of the European border regime. Starting from a version of the autonomy of migration approach that is based on the notion of appropriation, it proposes to apprehend the European border regime as a parasitic and precarious apparatus of capture. This apparatus of capture tries to recuperate migrants' practices of appropriation in order to turn the knowledge and creativity of these practices into a driving force for its own development. Important aspects of this dynamic are illustrated through two examples: the refinement of control mechanisms of the European visa regime and the repeated tightening of Germany's asylum regime since the 'summer of migration' in 2015. Taken together, these examples illustrate three aspects of processes of recuperation: first, that legal changes often only formalise previously informal practices of recuperation, secondly, that the framing of migration in terms of crisis functions as a vehicle for processes of recuperation which open up, thirdly, new opportunities for practices of appropriation as they are incoherent. In sum, the reading of the European border regime as an apparatus of capture paves the way for more assertive antiracist politics as it invites us to apprehend increasingly violent forms of border control not as signs of strengths of the European border regime, but as indicators of its increasingly desperate fight for survival.

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“…If controls are intensified and therefore smugglers ask for higher fees -either to compensate for the higher risks or for bribing more officials -migrants must work longer to save more; thus the duration of a transit migrant's stay is prolonged even further. Finally, if migrants are prevented from leaving the transit country and are apprehended and detained -as analysed in the case of Morocco -then the total duration of stay in the transit country has to be longer and migration is de facto slowed down (Panagiotidis & Tsianos 2007) or even terminated. This might, however, result in unintended side-effects, as transit countries become 'buffer states' or involuntary immigration countries (see below).…”

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Transit Migration in Europe

Düvell

Molodikova²,

Collyer³

2014

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Introduction 2.2 Transit border crossings in Turkey: Some facts 2.3 Environment of uncertainty 2.4 Environment of insecurity 2.5 Conclusion 3 Refugee Migration to Egypt: Settlement or Transit? Mulki Al-Sharmani 3.1 Introduction 3.2 The history of refugee migration to Egypt 3.3 Egypt's policies on refugees 3.4 UNHCR Cairo: Protection policies 3.5 Refugees' experiences 3.6 Conclusion: Settlement or transit? 4 Transnational Migration The Case of Sub-Saharan Transmigrants Stopping Over in Morocco Mehdi Alioua 4.1 The stage: The best place to observe and understand 'transit migrations' 4.2 The establishment of collectives in Maghrebian stopovers 4.3 The impact of transmigration on local populations 5 Trying to Transit Irregular Immigration in Malta Cetta Mainwaring 5.1 Introduction 5.2 EU migration policy 5.3 Malta 5.4 Trying to transit: Migrant accounts and strategies 5.5 Conclusion: Transit migration? Part 2 The Central and Eastern European Quadrants 6 The East-to-West Circuit Transit Migration through Russia Irina Ivakhnyuk 6.1 Introduction 6.2 The emergence of Russia as a transit zone 6.3 Interstate cooperation in counteracting irregular migration, human smuggling and trafficking 6.4 Conclusion 7 Hungary and the System of European Transit Migration Irina Molodikova 8 Irregular Transit Migration of Moldovan Citizens to the European Union Countries Valerii Mosneaga 8.1 Introduction 8.2 The push factors of Moldovan migration 8.3 Theoretical and methodological approach 8.4 Government efforts on migration management 8.5 Irregular (transit) migration from Moldova 8.6 The services for illegal migration and trafficking 8.7 Main routes for transit migration from Moldova to the EU 8.8 Return transit migration to Moldova 8.9 Irregular transit migration via the Republic of Moldova 8.10 Conclusion 9 Transit Migrations in the European Migration Spaces Politics, Determinants and Dynamics Franck Düvell 9.1 Contrasting geopolitical structures and migration regimes 9.2 Causes, patterns and consequences of transit migration 9.3 Characteristics and strategies of transit migrants 9.4 The politics of transit migration 9.

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Denaturalizing "Camps": Überwachen und Entschleunigen in der Schengener Ägäis-Zone

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De‐naturalising transit migration. Theory and methods of an ethnographic regime analysis

De‐naturalising transit migration. Theory and methods of an ethnographic regime analysis

Recuperation through Crisis Talk

Transit Migration in Europe

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