Following Fatigue, Feeling Fatigue: A Reflexive Ethnography of Emotion

Wajsberg, Mirjam

doi:10.17645/si.v8i4.3394

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“…I was confronted by the diverse ways people's mobile lives got disrupted by detention and asylum regulations. I witnessed how some people got lost and stuck in Europe, ending up living lives full of waiting (Jacobsen et al, 2020) and fatigue (Wajsberg, 2020). I was confused by the way some of the interlocutors visited countries in order to explore their opportunities without knowing if they would stay there.…”

Section: Counter Narratives Of Onward Migration and Secondary Movementsmentioning

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Counter moves. Destabilizing the grand narrative of onward migration and secondary movements in Europe

Schapendonk

2021

International Migration

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European migration scholars are increasingly interested in people's onward migrations and secondary movements. This paper takes a critical look at the conceptual underpinnings of this subfield by indicating how the lexicon of onward migration frames migratory processes as a staged process, involving a South–North directionality and hinting at a gradual progress for the migrants in question. This “grand narrative” of onward migration is anchored and reproduced by EU’s overarching policy frameworks. Based on an ethnographic project that followed African trajectories inside Europe, I present some dynamic im/mobility trajectories that can be considered counter narratives of onward migration. The detailed outlining of these trajectories show how mobility itself is a shifting ground without one major vector directing the movements. These counter narratives result in a discussion on the migranticization of mobility. More specifically, I plea for research approaches that free migratory movements from prepossessed directions.

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Section: Counter Narratives Of Onward Migration and Secondary Movementsmentioning

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Counter moves. Destabilizing the grand narrative of onward migration and secondary movements in Europe

Schapendonk

2021

International Migration

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“…A white, female junior academic holding Swedish citizenship, I was variably positioned by officers as 'one of them', and variably as a vulnerable and/or sexualised subject, or as a suspicious imposter. I noticed how I reacted to these positionings, and to the carceral environment, with anger, guilt and fatigue; emotions, which are empirical material in their own right (Wajsberg, 2020). However, I find it important to acknowledge the politics of 'feeling power' (Bonilla-Silva, 2019: 6) represented in this article.…”

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Feeling difference: Race, migration, and the affective infrastructure of a Danish detention camp

Lindberg

2022

Incarceration

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Migration-related detention, the administrative incarceration of people lacking legal authorisation to remain, has become a standardised technique used by states to violently regulate and discipline undesired mobility. As carceral junctions, migration detention camps serve to identify, confine, symbolically punish and expel people deemed ‘out of place’ in the national order of things. As bordering mechanisms, they are techniques of sorting and controlling populations, and sites where we can observe the enforcement of state racism. These processes of racialisation and expulsion operate corporally and affectively. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with prison officers working inside Denmark's migration-related detention camp, and engaging with the literature on race, emotion and border criminology, the article traces the role of racial affect in forging the identities of people interacting inside the camp. It demonstrates how prison officers’ racialised suspicion, compromised compassion, and passionate nationalism partake in making incarcerated migrants into expellable subjects, and in ordering them in accordance with matrices of racial differentiation. The officers’ emotions, I argue, should be understood as part of the camp's infrastructure, and productive for the border regime.

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“…These mutual becomings lack a straightforward causal determination, but there are certainly mobilisations (Moghaddari, 2021) and different capacities to initiate them. In other words, while the infrastructuring practices under study may be highly contingent, and may occur suddenly, they are still partly derived from people’s continuous (re-)navigations (Vigh, 2009), improvisations (Simone, 2019), networking (Schapendonk, 2015) and the entanglements of emotions (Wajsberg, 2020).…”

Section: Conceptualising Migrant Infrastructuring and Resonancementioning

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Resonance beyond regimes: Migrant’s alternative infrastructuring practices in Athens

Wajsberg

Schapendonk

2021

Urban Studies

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In migration studies, there is an increasing interest in understanding how migration processes are shaped by different forms of brokerage and mediation. We relate these debates to the everyday struggles of migrants in the city of Athens. In so doing, we propose a shift from the all-encompassing view on infrastructures, that is, as systematic entities of facilitation/control to the infrastructuring practices of migrants. This implies a focus on how migrants create dynamic social platforms, and how these platforms relate to formal infrastructures and industries. We analyse these infrastructuring practices through a conceptual lens of resonance that is sensitive to the constitutive (how things, people and processes are brought together) as well as travelling capacities of these practices (how the platforms shift to other places). With an ethnographic approach, we create in-depth insights into the ways in which migrants mediate im/mobility in the urban environment of Athens through infrastructuring practices. The paper concludes by reflecting on the promises and limitations of the infrastructuring practices as sites of solidarity. We thereby argue that there are many links to make within the mobile commons debate. At the same time, our findings highlight that the transformative potential of infrastructuring practices does not always go along with a clear claim on solidarity.

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Following Fatigue, Feeling Fatigue: A Reflexive Ethnography of Emotion

Cited by 13 publications

References 27 publications

Counter moves. Destabilizing the grand narrative of onward migration and secondary movements in Europe

Counter moves. Destabilizing the grand narrative of onward migration and secondary movements in Europe

Feeling difference: Race, migration, and the affective infrastructure of a Danish detention camp

Resonance beyond regimes: Migrant’s alternative infrastructuring practices in Athens

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