Introduction to the Special Issue: Implementing Human Rights: Civil Society and Migration Policies

Ambrosini, Maurizio; Leun, Joanne van der

doi:10.1080/15562948.2015.1017632

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“…Civil society's actions range from anti-immigration movements to pro-immigration groups, which cover a range of activities, from grass-rooted activism, the delivery of basic services for vulnerable immigrant groups, to advocacy organisations (Ambrosini & Van der Leun, 2015). The different organisational structures and political strategies of NGOs and social movements have frequently led to tensions.…”

Section: Movements and Organisationsmentioning

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Demand and Deliver: Refugee Support Organisations in Austria

Jong

Ataç

2017

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This article analyses four emerging refugee support organisations in Austria, founded before the so-called refugee crisis in 2015. It argues that these organisations have managed to occupy a middle space between mainstream NGOs and social movements with structures of inclusive governance, a high degree of autonomy, personalised relationships with refugees, and radical critique combined with service delivery. Based on interviews with the founders of each organisation, we show that their previous NGO and social movement experience formed a springboard for the new initiatives. It not only allowed them to identify significant gaps in existing service provision, but also provided the space of confrontation with the asylum system inspiring a strong sense of outrage, which in turn developed into political critique. We argue that this critique combined with identifying the needs of asylum seekers and refugees has produced a new type of organisation, which both delivers services and articulates radical demands. Each organisation offers a space of encounter, which undoes the 'organised disintegration' of the asylum system.

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Section: Movements and Organisationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Demand and Deliver: Refugee Support Organisations in Austria

Jong

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2017

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“…As opposed to public actors, non‐institutional ones have proved decisive in addressing temporary migrants' needs (see Ambrosini and Van der Leun ).…”

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“…As opposed to public actors, non-institutional ones have proved decisive in addressing temporary migrants' needs (see Ambrosini and Van der Leun 2015). In Rosarno, sovra-local NGOs have been of pivotal importance in granting access to medical services 14 and many non-institutional actors 15 have operated to assist migrants (food distribution, provision of blankets and basic furnishings).…”

Section: The Rising Of An Emergency and Institutional Answers To Migrmentioning

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Governing agricultural migrant workers as an “emergency”: converging approaches in Northern and Southern Italian rural towns

Semprebon

Marzorati

Garrapa

2017

International Migration

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Rosarno and Sermide are two small towns in Southern and Northern Italy, which are both part of a manual‐labour circuit of agricultural work. The article presents an analysis of governance structures in these towns and, by bringing together the literature on migrants' agricultural labour and local policy‐making, explores how public actors address migrant seasonal agricultural workers' needs to investigate outcomes of inclusion and exclusion. The article builds on qualitative research, conducted between 2012 and 2015, to propose a North‐South intra‐country comparison of local policy‐making. The findings show the emergency nature of local administrations' approaches and the critical role of civil society. They highlight the extent to which responses diverge or converge in means and scale, while stressing their convergence in scope to limit migrants' visibility.

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“… Our focus on the early part of the journey does not do justice to the important role that third sector organizations pay in the migrant's insertion at destination, including finding accommodation, getting a job, learning the language and dealing with legal and administrative issues. The role of such organizations has been an important focus in studies on irregular migration particularly in southern Europe, see for instance Ambrosini (), and Ambrosini and Van der Leun (). …”

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The Migration Archipelago: Social Navigation and Migrant Agency

Triandafyllidou

2018

International Migration

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This paper is inscribed into a new line of scholarly work seeking to cast light to the ways in which migrants convert their motivations into action within a policy framework that is characterised by many restrictions and limited opportunities to move. Drawing on recent fieldwork (2013‐2014) on irregular migrants from Afghanistan, Albania, Georgia, Pakistan and the Ukraine, in Greece, we investigate how they perceive opportunities and navigate restrictions eventually crossing borders whether unlawfully (from unguarded border areas or with fake documentation) or legally (abusing the terms of their entry/stay). The paper adopts the notion of social navigation as a heuristics tool to conceptualise the social, temporal and spatial character of the migration journey, its nodal points, and the interaction of migrants with different actors and factors that shape their migration plans and explores different types of migrant agency (recuperation, resilience and resistance) developed during the navigation process.

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Introduction to the Special Issue: Implementing Human Rights: Civil Society and Migration Policies

Cited by 62 publications

References 31 publications

Demand and Deliver: Refugee Support Organisations in Austria

Demand and Deliver: Refugee Support Organisations in Austria

Governing agricultural migrant workers as an “emergency”: converging approaches in Northern and Southern Italian rural towns

The Migration Archipelago: Social Navigation and Migrant Agency

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