Inside the Migration Regime

Eule, Tobias Georg; Borrelli, Lisa Marie; Lindberg, Annika; Wyss, Anna

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-98749-1_2

Cited by 3 publications

(3 citation statements)

References 101 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…A study of digital practices in welfare offices thus captures the outsourcing of migration control tasks that, as we argue, support political and legal restrictions affecting noncitizens and that are not simply produced and implemented by agencies that directly deal with migration enforcement (Infantino, 2016). We highlight new responsibilities, institutional exchange and dependencies that affect not only institutions and actors that were seemingly unconnected, but also the handling of cases and clients that find themselves within this network of responsibilities and contestations (Eule et al, 2019).…”

Section: Civil Servants Migration and Documentationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Practices of Negotiation: Social Workers at the Intersection of Migration and Social Policies in Switzerland and Belgium

Andreetta

Borrelli

2022

J. Soc. Pol.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Paperwork has always been a central part of bureaucratic work. Over the last few years, bureaucratic procedures have become increasingly standardised and digitalised. Based on interviews and ethnographic fieldwork within welfare offices in Switzerland and Belgium, we reflect on the way evidence is constructed within social policy and cases built for or against noncitizen welfare recipients in order to show how paper truths are established and challenged. The focus on digital practices within public policy implementation highlights how it contributes to enhanced control mechanisms on the implementation level and how migration law continues to guide welfare governance for noncitizens. This allows targeting of the most marginalised groups, whose rights to access state support are institutionally impeded. Through database information flows, official forms, paper reports and face-to-face meetings, we further show how a hybrid form of bureaucratic work emerges, where direct contact with the client is still key, yet highly influenced by standardisation processes.

show abstract

Section: Civil Servants Migration and Documentationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Practices of Negotiation: Social Workers at the Intersection of Migration and Social Policies in Switzerland and Belgium

Andreetta

Borrelli

2022

J. Soc. Pol.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The difficulty in finding clear guidelines for demonstrating sufficient funds highlights the space for interpretation enabled by the law and the discretionary power of the personnel at the Finnish Immigration Service, as demonstrated throughout the EU (e.g. Eule et al, 2018). The interview with the administrative personnel at the Finnish Immigration Service endorsed the perception that decisions are made on a ‘case-by-case’ basis (Spire, 2009):Of course, it [the permit decision] is always subject to case-by-case consideration.…”

Section: Navigating the Space For Interpretationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ambivalent Strategies: Student-Migrant-Workers’ Efforts at Challenging Administrative Bordering

Maury¹

2021

Sociology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Migrants’ struggles against borders have been examined extensively among refugees and undocumented migrants, whereas the everyday struggles in contexts of administrative bordering have remained insufficiently examined within the framework of so-called highly skilled migration. Drawing on in-depth interviews (N=34) with migrants holding a student residence permit in Finland, this article addresses the means of challenging administrative borders in a constrained situation produced by the border regime. I argue that student-migrant-workers employ pragmatic strategies by making use of the legal framework to secure their right to residence. However, the efforts at circumventing the constraints of the border regime often become re-inscribed within the framework of capitalist production, displaying the ambivalence of migrant practices. This article contributes to the scarce sociological literature on the struggles around administrative borders and the vague scholarly inquiry into student-migrants' efforts at challenging migration control.

show abstract

“…The paper itself is evidence of a productive engagement with tests. It evolved from conversations over fieldwork experiences both among the authors as part of their collaborative ethnographic project (Eule et al , 2018) and with others during a workshop on organisational ethnography in 2018. During an afternoon break in the mild Danish sun, our conversation meandered from our research results to the challenges we encountered during our ethnographic fieldwork.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Organisational ethnography as a project of unease

Lindberg

Eule

2020

JOE

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

PurposeThe article examines situations of unease during ethnographic fieldwork with migration control agents in Sweden, Denmark and Germany. It shows how these “tests” are both methodologically challenging and analytically valuable, and how they need to be addressed properly. The article concludes a special issue on “passing the test in organisational ethnography”.Design/methodology/approachThe article is based on ethnographic research with migration control agents, carried out by both authors in Denmark and Sweden (Annika) and Germany (Tobias). However, rather than presenting the main results from this research, the article focuses on the tests encountered during the research.FindingsThe article has two main findings. First, it provides an open typology of tests. Second, it proposes four ways in which ethnographers could address these tests: acknowledging them methodologically, working through them personally and collectively, unpacking them analytically and preparing others in teaching and peer-feedback.Research limitations/implicationsThe article encourages ethnographers to engage reflexively with fieldwork challenges, and provides a framework for doing so.Originality/valueThe article presents contributes to the current debate on organisational ethnography with recommendations of how to engage with tests in ethnographic fieldwork.

show abstract

Inside the Migration Regime

Cited by 3 publications

References 101 publications

Digital Practices of Negotiation: Social Workers at the Intersection of Migration and Social Policies in Switzerland and Belgium

Digital Practices of Negotiation: Social Workers at the Intersection of Migration and Social Policies in Switzerland and Belgium

Ambivalent Strategies: Student-Migrant-Workers’ Efforts at Challenging Administrative Bordering

Organisational ethnography as a project of unease

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About