(Im)mobile workers: entangled regimes of (im)mobility within the United Nations system

Fradejas-García, Ignacio; Mülli, Linda Martina

doi:10.1080/17450101.2019.1669914

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“…Consequently, the question here shifts from the amount and duration of mobilities to "how the formation, regulation, and distribution of these mobilities are shaped and patterned by existing social, political, and economic structures" (Salazar, 2014: 60). By way of example, transnational mobilities are also shaped by ethnic enclaves (Molina, Valenzuela-García, Lubbers, García-Macías, & Pampalona, 2015), supranational organizations (Fradejas-García & Mülli, 2019) or gendered transnational connections (Zani, 2019).…”

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Transnational (Im)mobilities and Informality in Europe

Fradejas-García

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Bhimji³

2021

Migrat. Lett.

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People around the globe rely on informal practices to resist, survive, care and relate to each other beyond the control and coercive presence of institutions and states. In the EU, regimes of mobility at multiple scales affect various people on the move who are pushed into informality in order to acquire social mobility while having to combat border regimes, racialization, inequalities, and state bureaucracies. This text explores how mobilities and informality are entangled with one another when it comes to responding to the social, political, and economic inequalities that are produced by border and mobility regimes. Within this frame, the ethnographic articles in this special issue go beyond national borders to connect the production of mobility and informality at multiple interconnected scales, from refugees adapting to settlement bureaucracies locally to transit migrants coping with the selective external borders of the EU, or from transnational entrepreneurs’ ability to move between formal and informal norms to the multiple ways in which transnational mobility informally confronts economic, social and political constraints. In sum, this volume brings together articles on informality and mobility that take account of the elusive practices that deal with the inequalities of mobility and immobility.

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Transnational (Im)mobilities and Informality in Europe

Fradejas-García

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Bhimji³

2021

Migrat. Lett.

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“…Theorizing an Informal Regime of (Im)moral Mobilities Mobility practices and their (in)formal regulation take place in complex political, social, and economic systems (re)produced by a multitude of actorspublic and private, individual and collectiveoperating across local, national, and transnational scales (Tsianos and Karakayali 2010;Rass and Wolff 2018). This complexity forms and is formed by regimes of mobilities that evolve over time, that are performed according to specific local contexts, and that materialize through various instruments of control (Glick Schiller and Salazar 2013;Baker 2016;Fradejas-García and Mülli 2019). Following Glick Schiller and Salazar, I do not conceive of one regime of mobilities, but of an array of intersecting regimes of mobility with varying logics, principles, objectives, and rules that "normalise the movements of some travellers while criminalising and entrapping the ventures of others."…”

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(Im)moral Mobilities in a Swiss Borderland

Charmillot

2021

Journal of Borderlands Studies

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Based on an ethnographic case study in a Swiss valley on the border with France, this paper sheds light on the emergence of a regime of (im)moral mobilities. It investigates how and why the presence of a specific border in a peripheralized regionin this case a national border separating spheres of income inequalityinforms and results in dynamics of morally contested mobilities. The analysis shows how some cross-border mobilities, while being legal (such as living in Switzerland and shopping in France or living in France and working in Switzerland), are negotiated by borderlanders, who perceive them as damaging to the economic and social wellbeing of the valley. It focuses on everyday practices and discourses to illuminate the informal and mundane (re)production of borders and boundaries. The deployment of the regime of (im)moral mobilitiesand all the discourses and practices it comprisesproduces immoralized individuals who are stigmatized, as well as moralized persons who feel they belong to a collective.

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“…This chapter takes up my reflections on the ritualized practices in the UN(Mülli 2019). While I have adopted a few paragraphs directly, I have further thought through most parts of the chapters and enriched them with theoretical considerations and empirical material.…”

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Mülli¹

2021

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Wie gestalten sich die Arbeits- und Lebenswelten von jungen UNO-Beschäftigten in Zeiten des Postfordismus? Ausgehend von der Perspektive junger Beschäftigter an den UNO-Standorten in Genf und Wien befasst sich das Buch mit der zunehmenden Flexibilisierung und Arbeitsplatzunsicherheit. Die Studie legt ein besonderes Augenmerk auf mikrostrukturelle Machtpraktiken und die individuelle Agency. Sie zeigt, wie UNO-Beschäftigte ihre persönlichen Erzählungen mit dem in den vergangenen Jahren und Jahrzehnten kreierten Organisationsbild in Einklang bringen, und in welchem Wechselspiel die prekären Beschäftigungsverhältnisse mit einem moralischen Überlegenheitsgefühl stehen. Dabei wird deutlich, dass diese Entwicklungen keinen Widerspruch darstellen, sondern zwei Seiten derselben Medaille sind. Das Buch zeigt am Beispiel der UNO auf, wie flexible Beschäftigungsverhältnisse in Zeiten des kognitiv- und affektbasierten Kapitalismus auf Biographien wirken. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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(Im)mobile workers: entangled regimes of (im)mobility within the United Nations system

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Transnational (Im)mobilities and Informality in Europe

Transnational (Im)mobilities and Informality in Europe

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