Inside the Migration Regime

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

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

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“…Detainees’ levels of resistance affect police methods in immigration enforcement: in many cases, immigration detention is a response to migrants’ resistance toward removal. While the police can use a “suddenness strategy” to detain migrants just before prescheduled removal flights in order to minimize opportunities for resistance (Eule et al, 2019: 169–171), immigration detention also provides an instrument for the police to pressure non-compliant foreign nationals to cooperate with the removal procedures (Leerkes and Kox, 2017). Immigration detention demonstrates the function of waiting as a disciplinary form of power that aims to produce compliant subjects (de Genova, 2020).…”

Section: Enforcement Of Removals and Micropolitics Of Detentionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Immigration detention has been an inconspicuous police matter, regarded as an inevitable part of the immigration and asylum system, without further legitimation in governmental documents (e.g., Ministry of the Interior, 2014). In practice, “the dirty work” of immigration detention and removal is largely delegated to the police, similar to the immigration administration in charge of individual immigration decisions (Eule et al, 2019; Fassin, 2011). The National Police Board also has an influential role in the policymaking and preparation of immigration legislation, starting from providing information on the current state of affairs.…”

Section: Police Measures Beyond Immigration Detentionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Multiple functions of immigration detention: Police measures in the governance of mobile populations

Könönen

2023

Punishment & Society

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Notwithstanding punitive implications, immigration detention as an administrative deprivation of liberty represents a characteristic police measure, targeting deportable noncitizens with limited rights and protections. Drawing on an analysis of the detention system in Finland, I discuss different functions of immigration detention, focusing on police powers in the governance of mobile populations. In Finland, immigration detention is separated from the criminal justice system and delegated to the police, who possess broad powers to impose coercive measures for the enforcement of immigration decisions and social control in the absence of effective judicial supervision. Despite being affiliated with the removal of rejected asylum seekers, immigration detention also is intertwined with crime prevention and control of irregular migration. In addition to deprivation of liberty in the first place, police measures support removal procedures that continue during detention, as well as other administrative strategies to control deportable people and deter unauthorized residency, involving varying degrees of coercion. Though connected with criminal justice and manifestations of penal power in border criminology discussions, immigration detention can arguably be better understood as a coercive police measure, which can be employed alongside other administrative means for immigration enforcement outside of the criminal justice system.

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Section: Enforcement Of Removals and Micropolitics Of Detentionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Police Measures Beyond Immigration Detentionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multiple functions of immigration detention: Police measures in the governance of mobile populations

Könönen

2023

Punishment & Society

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“…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.

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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.

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“…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

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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.

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Inside the Migration Regime

Cited by 4 publications

References 101 publications

Multiple functions of immigration detention: Police measures in the governance of mobile populations

Multiple functions of immigration detention: Police measures in the governance of mobile populations

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

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