Policing the Intimate Borders of the Nation: A Review of Recent Trends in Family-Related Forms of Immigration Control

Bonizzoni, Paola

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“…Because they can only access temporary, visitor visas in Australia and the UK, Geetha's and Meng and Li Wei's care-related transnational mobilities are all taking place under conditions of temporariness, '… enforced by sophisticated state regulations' (Horvarth 2014: 155) resulting from the securitization and economisation of migration. The political rationale behind older migrants' exclusion from long-term, permanent stay pertains to this double register: older migrants are constructed as a 'threat' to the security of nations through the anticipated burden they will place on welfare systems (securitization logic), and do not fit into the categories of migrant that governments consider to be of economic and demographic utility (economisation of migration logic) (for a literature review of this theme, see Bonizzoni 2018). Such constructions of older migrants also play out in highly racialized ways, such as the problematisation of the extended Indian / South Asian family in UK discourse (Shaw 2003), and the long-running concerns about the threat of Asianisation in Australia (Hage 2012).…”

Section: Physical Political Social and Temporal Dimensions Of Regimmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In order to do this, however, it is imperative to understand migrants as 'individuals-in-relation' (England 2003). From this perspective, the consequences for family relationships and support networks, especially those that are lived across territorial borders -in transnational family relationships -become a pertinent focus of enquiry, as a growing body of literature exploring the intersections between mobility regimes and family relations illustrates (Bonizzoni 2018;Kilkey 2017;Kofman & Raghuram 2015;Van Walsum 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Examining transnational care circulation trajectories within immobilizing regimes of migration: Implications for proximate care

Merla¹,

Kilkey²,

Baldassar³

2020

JFamRes

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In this paper we argue that the current political context of restrictionist migration policies is dramatically affecting people’s capacity to cross borders to engage in proximate care with their relatives, which is a central, yet often overlooked, feature of transnational care practices. We examine how the wider context of temporality, restrictive mobility, and heightened uncertainty about the future affect people’s ability to be mobile and to move back and forth for caregiving. In examining the wellbeing effects of such restrictions, we highlight their variable impact depending on factors such as socio-economic positioning, life-course stage and health. The first sections of the paper present the care circulation framework and the particular meaning and function of proximate forms of care, as well as the main categories of care-related mobility that support this. We illustrate the dynamics and challenges faced by transnational family members, who engage in these care-related mobilities, through three vignettes involving care circulation between India and the UK, China and Australia, and Morocco and Belgium. In the final section, we discuss our vignettes in relation to the political, physical, social and time dimensions of current regimes of mobility that impact on care-related mobilities. We argue that the regimes of mobility that currently govern care-related mobilities are best understood as ‘immobilizing regimes’ with important and undervalued implications for ontological security and wellbeing.

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Section: Physical Political Social and Temporal Dimensions Of Regimmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Examining transnational care circulation trajectories within immobilizing regimes of migration: Implications for proximate care

Merla¹,

Kilkey²,

Baldassar³

2020

JFamRes

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“…The Need for a New Research Agenda period, the regulation of family migration has become increasingly restrictive, prompting studies on the effects of such regulations on sponsors and family migrants (Bonizzoni 2018;Kofman 2018). Over the past decade, the interlinkages between family migration and integration have received increased attention among policy-makers in Europe and scholars have turned their attention to the nexus among family migration, immigration policy and integration (Bech, Borevi & Mouritsen 2017;Bonjour & Kraler 2015;Hernes 2018).…”

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Family Migration and Integration: <i>The Need for a New Research Agenda</i>

Eggebø

Brekke

2019

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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This article investigates the link between family migration and integration. It is based on a literature review of existing research across the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, focusing on examples from Denmark and Norway. Much of the existing literature on family migration and integration analyses legal changes and policy arguments. Focusing on literature about integration and regulation outcomes, we identify the following two dominant topic areas in existing academic work: (1) empirical studies of labour market integration outcomes for family migrants-some limited to focusing on intra-marriages-and (2) research about the consequences of family immigration regulations. The article highlights the need for a new research agenda that moves beyond studies of intra-ethnic marriages and labour market participation to include all groups of family migrants and diff erent dimensions of integration. Moreover, it should analyse long-term eff ects of family migration regulations, as well as postentry regulations and social structures.

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“…In order to understand why cross-border marriages have become a key site for contemporary forms of migration control (Bonizzoni 2018), we need to analyse nation-states' politics of belonging vis-à-vis both migration and marriage. For Yuval-Davis (2006), the politics of belonging refers to 'specific political projects aimed at constructing belonging in particular ways to particular collectivities ' (197): it exists only when boundaries are challenged and threatened.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Through this attribution, both spouseswhether citizens or notconfront the state apparatus in ways other couples do not. Because they live (or used to live) across borders, the right of these couples to live together is imperilled and their intimate life comes under scrutiny from state agents (Maskens 2015;Bonizzoni 2018;De Hart and Bonjour, forthcoming). In other terms, we see here not only how migration is produced, regulated and governed by borders, but also that borders 'make a world' rather than divide an already-made one (Paasi 2009;Wilson and Hastings 2012).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Contesting categories: cross-border marriages from the perspectives of the state, spouses and researchers

Moret

Andrikopoulos

Dahinden

2019

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Marriages that involve the migration of at least one of the spouses challenge two intersecting facets of the politics of belonging: the making of the 'good and legitimate citizens' and the 'acceptable family'. In Europe, cross-border marriages have been the target of increasing state controls, an issue of public concern and the object of scholarly research. The study of cross-border marriages and the ways these marriages are framed is inevitably affected by states' concerns and priorities. There is a need for a reflexive assessment of how the categories employed by state institutions and agents have impacted the study of cross-border marriages. The introduction to this Special Issue analyses what is at stake in the regulation of cross-border marriages and how European states use particular categories (e.g. 'sham', 'forced' and 'mixed' marriages) to differentiate between acceptable and nonacceptable marriages. When researchers use these categories unreflexively, they risk reproducing nation-centred epistemologies and reinforcing state-informed hierarchies and forms of exclusion. We suggest ways to avoid these pitfalls: differentiating between categories of analysis and categories of practice, adopting methodologies that do not mirror nation-states' logic and engaging with general social theory outside migration studies. The empirical contributions of the Special Issue offer new insights into a timely topic.

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Policing the Intimate Borders of the Nation: A Review of Recent Trends in Family-Related Forms of Immigration Control

Cited by 32 publications

References 56 publications

Examining transnational care circulation trajectories within immobilizing regimes of migration: Implications for proximate care

Examining transnational care circulation trajectories within immobilizing regimes of migration: Implications for proximate care

Family Migration and Integration: <i>The Need for a New Research Agenda</i>

Contesting categories: cross-border marriages from the perspectives of the state, spouses and researchers

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