Governing Migration from the Margins

Mainwaring, Cetta; Walton‐Roberts, Margaret

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“…On this point, it is worth highlighting the articulations and the discrepancies between legal and formal regulations on the one hand, and informal police measures on the other. As Cetta Mainwaring and Margaret Walton-Roberts have remarked, while migration scholarship "has tended to focus on formal laws as enacted by the sovereign states", there is a need to shift the attention to "the geopolitical margins of the state" (Mainwaring, Walton-Roberts, 2018: 2); and, in parallel to this, I suggest, we should reorient the analysis towards the margins of the formal law and jurisdiction, in order to investigate how administrative measures and local decrees are impact on migrant's lives and movements. If we consider the spatial strategies enforced by the police at the Italian-French border and at the Italian-Swiss one, these should be read as frantic attempts on the part of the states to regain control over migration movements, more than as a planned strategy of migration management.…”

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Governing migrant mobility through mobility: Containment and dispersal at the internal frontiers of Europe

Tazzioli

2019

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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This article focuses on the twofold relationship between migrants’ mobility and modes of government, suggesting that mobility is an object of government and, at once, a technique for governing migrants. It focuses on mobility as a technology of government, investigating how intra-European migration movements are managed by national authorities, with particular attention to illegalized migrants who fall under the Dublin Regulation. Building on ethnographic research conducted between 2015 and 2017, the article centres first on the Italian–French border (Ventimiglia) and on the Swiss–Italian border (Como). Then, it moves on exploring how migrants are currently managed in France, being transferred from Calais to hosting centres across the country. It highlights how migrants’ movements are controlled, disrupted and diverted not (only) through detention and immobility but by generating effects of containment keeping migrants on the move and forcing them to engage in convoluted geography. It shows that one of the main strategies for governing migration through mobility consists in the politics of migrant dispersal, that is by scattering migrants across spaces and dividing emergent migrant groups.

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Governing migrant mobility through mobility: Containment and dispersal at the internal frontiers of Europe

Tazzioli

2019

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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“…Territoriality and Status as Grounds for Demanding Rights States use territoriality as a means to delineate their jurisdiction. However, as critical scholars have shown, the territorial jurisdiction of states is largely socially constructed or, at the very least, highly contingent (Braverman et al 2014; Raustiala 2011; Agnew 2010; Elden 2013; Mainwaring and Walton-Roberts 2018). For example, religious sanctuaries or consulates in which the laws of the state do not apply have always compromised the integrity of state territories, and increasing globalization renders the territorial application of state laws contentious (Raustiala 2011; Thomaz 2018)).…”

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“…Thus, the contingent nature of state territoriality opens up opportunities for states to manipulate the territorial application of their laws and delineate their responsibility to uphold rights (Maillet et al 2018; Ballas 2022; Kelly 2006; Mainwaring and Walton-Roberts 2018). For example, states have the power to apply different classifications to the territories they rule—such as ‘occupied territories,’ ‘closed military zones,’ or ‘seam zones’—which allows them to apply the particular legal regime that best serves their purposes in any given moment.…”

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“…These indicate different degrees of political membership, with the corresponding (wider or narrower) set of rights. A multitude of scholars have described the significance of status in the attainment of rights, and the ambiguity entailed in status that allows states to shun their responsibility for ensuring those rights (Thomaz 2018; Mainwaring and Walton-Roberts 2018).…”

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Territoriality and Status in Human Rights Litigation: The Case of Israel/Palestine

Ballas

2022

Social & Legal Studies

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Both territoriality and political status serve as parameters for determining the extent of a state's obligation to uphold human rights. Scholars have shown that different actors may manipulate the scope of these parameters to serve their particular purposes. Based on interviews with lawyers from Israeli human rights organizations, this article shows how they also manipulate the relationships between these parameters. When representing different clients, lawyers from Israeli human rights organizations accentuate one parameter over the other, demand congruity between them, or reject both. The findings highlight how the movable intersections between territoriality and political status facilitate a multitude of discursive strategies from which lawyers can pick and choose, to address political predicaments they face in their praxis. Furthermore, by judiciously applying these strategies, lawyers are able to mobilize the indeterminate relationship between political status and territoriality to destabilize what they perceive to be the unjust boundaries promoted by the state.

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Political Strategies of Self-representation: The Case of Young Afghan Migrants in Sweden

Josefsson

2023

Studies in Childhood and Youth

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In this chapter, I explore how children and youth make use of particular strategies of self-representation to seek political representation. I do so by taking my point of departure in a group of young Afghan migrants in Sweden and their political mobilization for their right to residency permits. In dialogue with debates in political theory around democracy and representation, I examine how young political actors contest and recast dominant regimes of political representation to claim political space and a voice of their own. Focus is put on the ways in which various actors struggle over the authority to represent and give meaning to the interests, rights, and well-being of young migrants and how these processes of representing children and youth become politically productive. Four different strategies are identified and suggested to constitute a politics of self-representation: Rejecting previous forms of representation; establishing, shaping, and controlling political identity; creating political space; making opponents and allies. Based on these empirical observations, I argue that the mobilizations of young non-citizens against deportation reveal a critical dimension to the politics of childhood, namely, how the strategies of self-representation used by children and youth disrupt current legal and political orders and open up new avenues for political representation.

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Governing Migration from the Margins

Cited by 4 publications

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Governing migrant mobility through mobility: Containment and dispersal at the internal frontiers of Europe

Governing migrant mobility through mobility: Containment and dispersal at the internal frontiers of Europe

Territoriality and Status in Human Rights Litigation: The Case of Israel/Palestine

Political Strategies of Self-representation: The Case of Young Afghan Migrants in Sweden

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