Migration in the age of involuntary immobility: Theoretical reflections and Cape Verdean experiences

Carling, Jørgen

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“…This gap is also partly due to the fact that neither rational choice models nor structural or network approaches to migration theory can fully account for the tensions between migrants aspirations to migrate and their actual abilities to do so (Carling, 2002).…”

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“…It either refers to a kind of "ongoing mobility", a movement across space, involving a set of strategies for undocumented border crossing (Düvell, 2006) or instead to a period of "involuntary immobility" in which migrants are somehow "stuck" in a country against their will (Carling, 2002). Critical voices (Düvell, 2006, De Haas, 2007 have noted that "transit" is a politically laden concept of questionable validity to conceptualise what are probably new, contemporary migratory movements (King, 2002).…”

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Gender and the dynamics of mobility: reflections on African migrant mothers and ‘transit migration’ in Morocco

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2012

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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“…It also reflects a loss of social network, as the group previously allowed them to build trust and community bonds. This culminates in involuntary mobility (Carling, 2002), with a restriction on freedom to physically move perpetuating social immobility (Kaufmann & Montulet, 2008:38;Kronlid, 2008), all of which reflects gendered inequalities of power (Silvey, 2000).…”

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Gendered consequences of mobility for adaptation in small island developing states: case studies from Maafushi and Kudafari in the Maldives

Phudoma¹

2018

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ABSTRACT:In recent years island communities have actively adapted in response to a complex combination of changes that has shaped life on the islands, and this has had gendered consequences. The gender ramifications of adaptation on islands are still largely neglected in adaptation policies, although they are increasingly being addressed in the scientific literature. Understanding gendered consequences is indispensable for a critical comprehension of adaptation on islands. It would help avoid the formulation of adaptation policies that tend to focus only on technical problems and solutions. Such solutions potentially run the risk of reducing island problems to only biophysical issues such as sea level rise or problems attributed to the size and isolation of the islands. This paper investigates the consequences of adaptation for the mobility of both women and men on two islands in the Maldives, a small island developing state (SIDS) that has experienced unprecedented changes in recent decades. The focus on mobility stems from the fact that it forms an integral social and cultural part of island life. Although gender and mobility are intrinsically linked, the gendered consequences of adaptation for mobility are understudied. This study used qualitative interviews to collect narratives. The results show that the adaptation interviewees describe from their living memory has only exacerbated gender inequality by influencing the mobility of men and women in different ways.

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“…Th is analytical perspective intends, fi rst, to contribute to the deconstruction of the voiceless refugee and emphasize not only the agency of the displaced (Korac 2009: 8) but also the potentially empowering eff ects of involuntary (im)mobility (Carling 2002;Hammar 2014), as Lubkemann's contribution posits most forcefully. Second, this section insists on moving the focus of displacement studies from the displaced as a population to displacement as a process, as Bjarnesen puts it in his contribution to this issue.…”

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Bjarnesen

Vigh

2016

Conflict and Society

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Wars unsettle our commonsense understandings of movement and mobility. Simultaneously entropic and inertial, they conjure up images of rampant disorder and chaos as well as strained and crippled formations locked in negative tension. On the one hand, detrimental movement; on the other, deadly stalemate. Both mobility and immobility are, as such, associated with the iconography of warfare and confl icts. Th ey may be presented as out of time through pictures of empty streets, ruins, trenches, and dead bodies frozen in contorted positions, yet, conversely, some of the most archetypical images of war connote speed, fl ows, and movement, seen in images of troop advances or retreats, rows of traveling refugees, and hauls of humanitarian aid shipped or fl own into airports and harbors from afar. In temporal terms, confl ict and violence are oft en represented in the lethargy of decay or the entropy of aggression.Th at wars evoke both movement and stagnation is, perhaps, not surprising as the very nature of attack and defense is centered on such diff erent modalities as moving across and digging in. However, behind the more obvious (im)mobilities of warfare lies a more subtle movement of people, connecting people and places socially and spatially. When seen from afar the commotion of warfare may be iconically related to the friction of the frontlines or clashes of confl ict. But in the shadows of spectacular confl ictual shift s or standoff s emerges an alternative myriad of underlying movements, disruptions, and localizations. Confl ict and warfare may disconnect and disrupt, but they also connect and realign, creating alternative orders and social formations in the process. Th ey not only spur displacement but simultaneously facilitate emplacement.Confl ict and warfare may thus generate novel social positions, avenues of mobility, and worth in the process of dismantling old ones. Th ey instantiate formations and relations that come to inform more socially oriented fears and desires and become frames of action and understanding related to concerns outside or beyond the warring order. Th e movement from peace to confl ict may thus reconfi gure social environments, change social positions, and create settings that people live in rather than merely through (Vigh 2008). Th e social sciences have been relatively inept at capturing the more social and everyday aspects of confl ict and warfare. Considered the most exceptional of events, such situations have been seen as foundationally extraordinary to social life.Th e reason for our relatively slow move toward examining the less remarkable and more nuanced dynamics of confl icts and warfare can be found in two related factors. First of all, understanding not just the displacement but also the emplacement generated by such situations 10 Ⅲ Jesper Bjarnesen and Henrik Vigh requires a view from within the actual social fi elds and formations in question, necessitating a commitment to a type of fi eldwork that most researchers are, understandably, unwilling to undertake. Second, ...

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Migration in the age of involuntary immobility: Theoretical reflections and Cape Verdean experiences

Cited by 700 publications

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Gender and the dynamics of mobility: reflections on African migrant mothers and ‘transit migration’ in Morocco

Gender and the dynamics of mobility: reflections on African migrant mothers and ‘transit migration’ in Morocco

Gendered consequences of mobility for adaptation in small island developing states: case studies from Maafushi and Kudafari in the Maldives

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