In private hands? the markets of migration control and the politics of outsourcing

López-Sala, Ana; Godenau, Dirk

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2020.1857229

Cited by 19 publications

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“…During the migration crisis in Europe in 2015, it was diagnosed that the authorities were withdrawing from their duties towards migrants, with NGOs taking over their duties, as well as creating space for commercial economic activities (Kersch & Mishtal, 2016; López‐Sala & Godenau, 2022). Neoliberal practices of multi‐level migration management were implemented, aimed at curbing and surging migration (Ambrosini, 2021; Pianezzi et al, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

Governance agility in reception of war refugees from Ukraine: The case of Wrocław, Poland

Błaszczyk,

Dolińska,

Makaro

et al. 2023

Soc Policy Adm

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The unprecedented influx of migrants triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine posed a major challenge for neighbouring countries. For the local authorities of the cities where the migrants arrived, managing the reception of the refugees became a key issue. This article discusses a study on the reception of refugees during the first period of the war in Ukraine in Wrocław, a city that became one of the main Polish hubs of war‐triggered migration. Analysing specific examples of the organisation of activities concerning the aid given to newcomers from Ukraine, we indicate the actors involved in these measures, the range of resources mobilised, the way in which tasks were divided, and the relations between the cooperating stakeholders. The study highlights the key role of agility in managing the issue of reception. However, it is not the quality of the existing system, but the result of the need to develop ad hoc solutions to deal with potential crises. Even so, the flexibility of action, the fluidity of task distribution and the ‘community of the higher purpose’ have enabled effective measures to build the resilience of cities to the threat.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Governance agility in reception of war refugees from Ukraine: The case of Wrocław, Poland

Błaszczyk,

Dolińska,

Makaro

et al. 2023

Soc Policy Adm

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“…Driven by securitisation and techno-solutionism, private actors have taken a significant role in the datafication process of border management in the EU (López-Sala and Godenau, 2020). The UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, Tendayi Achiume, highlighted that the EU budget for the management of borders migration and asylum for 2021–2027 would make more than EUR 34.9 billion, outsourcing part of its investments to private companies (Achiume, 2020).…”

Section: Digital Methods: Making Datafication At the Eu Borders Intel...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While transparency promises to lead to ‘asymmetry reduction’ (Alloa, 2018), asymmetries of power can also be enacted or even intensified through claims for transparency, particularly if citizens lack the infrastructures and competences needed to work upon transparency. Indeed, in the case of the EU borders, transparency requirements around public–private partnerships do not reduce or otherwise challenge these asymmetric relations, as the involvement of private companies has increased over the past decades due to the growth in securitisation practices and techno-solutionism in border management (López-Sala and Godenau, 2020). 3…”

Section: Digital Technologies At the Eu Bordersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Neither opaque nor transparent: A transdisciplinary methodology to investigate datafication at the EU borders

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In 2020, the European Union announced the award of the contract for the biometric part of the new database for border control, the Entry Exit System, to two companies: IDEMIA and Sopra Steria. Both companies had been previously involved in the development of databases for border and migration management. While there has been a growing amount of publicly available documents that show what kind of technologies are being implemented, for how much money, and by whom, there has been limited engagement with digital methods in this field. Moreover, critical border and security scholarship has largely focused on qualitative and ethnographic methods. Building on a data feminist approach, we propose a transdisciplinary methodology that goes beyond binaries of qualitative/quantitative and opacity/transparency, examines power asymmetries and makes the labour of coding visible. Empirically, we build and analyse a dataset of the contracts awarded by two European Union agencies key to its border management policies – the European Agency for Large-Scale Information Systems (eu-LISA) and the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex). We supplement the digital analysis and visualisation of networks of companies with close reading of tender documents. In so doing, we show how a transdisciplinary methodology can be a device for making datafication ‘intelligible’ at the European Union borders.

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“…Some of the academic literature in sociology and political science focuses on the link between expert knowledge and migration governance (Pécoud 2015; Boswell 2009; Rigo 2018; Massari 2021). These studies frequently refer to the Foucauldian relationship between knowledge production and the exercise of power (Gaventa and Cornwall 2008; Carmel and Kan 2018).…”

Section: Knowledge and Evidence In Forced Migration Governancementioning

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Evidence as a Specific Knowledge to Inform Humanitarian Decision-Making in Migration Crisis Contexts: The Case of Syrian Refugees in Jordan

Promsopha

Tucci

2023

International Migration Review

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To fulfill their missions, humanitarian organizations are engaged in the production and dissemination of a specific form of knowledge about refugees—namely, evidence. Yet relatively little scholarly work has been done on evidence as a basis for humanitarian decision-making in refugee crises. In this article, we analyze the evidence produced on Syrian refugees in Jordan between 2012 and 2017 by humanitarian actors, its appropriateness and relevance, to assess (a) potential side-effects for refugees and (b) functions for humanitarian organizations. Drawing on 234 documents on Syrian refugees in Jordan collected on major humanitarian platforms and interviews with experts from international organizations, this article shows that, due to the type of evidence produced, Syrian refugees living outside camps are invisibilized and their needs might be less considered in aid projects. The article also shows that some evidence practices are related to the outsourcing of data collection and analysis to specialized actors, and to quantification and standardization of evidence that plays a part in consolidating the legitimacy of humanitarian organizations. Our results highlight the importance of considering this specific form of knowledge when studying humanitarian interventions in international migration and refugee governance.

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In private hands? the markets of migration control and the politics of outsourcing

Cited by 19 publications

References 48 publications

Governance agility in reception of war refugees from Ukraine: The case of Wrocław, Poland

Governance agility in reception of war refugees from Ukraine: The case of Wrocław, Poland

Neither opaque nor transparent: A transdisciplinary methodology to investigate datafication at the EU borders

Evidence as a Specific Knowledge to Inform Humanitarian Decision-Making in Migration Crisis Contexts: The Case of Syrian Refugees in Jordan

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