Social Policies as a Tool of Migration Control

Ataç, İlker; Rosenberger, Sieglinde

doi:10.1080/15562948.2018.1539802

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“…Valenta and Thorshaug, 2013;Schammann, 2017). It thereby contributes to literature on conditionality as an ordering principle in migration policy (Landolt and Goldring, 2015;Ataç and Rosenberger, 2018). Moreover, it brings the CARIN criteria to an empirical test, highlighting both their usefulness as heuristic tools and their limitations, as they suggest that deservingness criteria can be neatly disentangled, which in reality seems hardly applicable.…”

Section: Conc Lusionmentioning

confidence: 91%

Deserving the Right to Work? Immigration Officials and the Work Permit in Germany

Schultz

2021

Social Policy and Society

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This article investigates the role of deservingness conceptions in the implementation of labour market access policies for migrants with precarious legal status. It explores how immigration officials frame the deservingness of work permit applicants, considering also the political, legal and societal context in which they work. The analysis takes account of the Control, Attitude, Reciprocity, Identity and Need (CARIN) criteria, and uses primary data of semi-structured interviews with senior officials in German municipal immigration offices. It finds that officials frequently employ deservingness frames inbuilt into the relevant parts of the law, but also behavioural norms that go beyond legal requirements. The article makes two main contributions. Providing empirical insight into the migration bureaucracy’s part in the implementation of labour market policy, it seeks to help advance understanding of the complex processes of differential in- and exclusion in countries of immigration. Furthermore, the research design allows putting the CARIN criteria to an empirical test.

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Section: Conc Lusionmentioning

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Deserving the Right to Work? Immigration Officials and the Work Permit in Germany

Schultz

2021

Social Policy and Society

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“…As migrants navigate the “social space created by the differentiation of society” (Bommes & Sciortino, 2011, p. 224), the state attempts to close this space, bringing other social systems into policing migrations (Engbersen & Broeders, 2011). States see welfare as key to the livelihoods of many “unwanted” migrant populations, so they use welfare to try to control migration (Ataç & Rosenberger, 2019; Sales, 2002). The destitution and limited integration caused by such policies keep immigrants deportable (De Genova & Peutz, 2010; Geddes, 2000) or aim to deter them punitively (Squire, 2009).…”

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What Drives the Immigration-Welfare Policy Link? Comparing Germany, France and the United Kingdom

Slaven

Colombeau

Badenhoop

2020

Comparative Political Studies

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Western European states have increasingly linked immigration and welfare policy. This trend has important implications for European welfare-state trajectories, but accounts of the policy reasoning behind it have diverged. Are policymakers attempting to delimit social citizenship to secure welfare-state legitimacy? Pursuing new, market-oriented welfare-state goals? Symbolically communicating immigration control intentions to voters? Or attempting to instrumentally steer immigration flows? These accounts have rarely been tested empirically against each other. Redressing this, we employ 83 elite interviews in a comparative process-tracing study of policies linking welfare provision and immigration status in Germany, France, and the UK during the 1990s. We find little evidence suggesting welfare-guided policy reasonings. Rather, this policy linkage appears “immigration-guided:” meant to control “unwanted” immigration or resonate symbolically in immigration politics. Differences in exclusions from welfare support for migrants grew from existing national differences in welfare-state design and politicizations of immigration, not from policy intentions, which were largely shared.

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“…Recent analyses of border control have adopted broader perspectives, such as ‘borderscapes’ (C. Brambilla 2015 ) and ‘border regimes’ (Tsianos and Karakayali 2010 ). Thereby, they build on scholarship that demonstrates that national borders and their control are not limited to the territorial margins of a nation state but have proliferated to the interior (Ataç and Rosenberger 2019 ; Pfirter 2019 ; Yuval-Davis et al 2018 ) and the exterior (FitzGerald 2020 ; Stock et al 2019 ) of a state’s territory. Nevertheless, territorial borders remain crucial sites of migration control that perform and reify the differentiation of the world’s population into groups with different rights and privileges (De Genova 2013 ; FitzGerald 2020 ).…”

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Shaping migration at the border: the entangled rationalities of border control practices

Achermann

2021

CMS

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This article analyses how border guards as members of a state organisation shape the movement of non-nationals into the territory of a nation state. Based on ethnographic fieldwork on the Swiss Border Guard (SBG), it explores the rationalities—understood as stabilised ways of reasoning and acting—that characterise practices within this state organisation. Combining organisational and structuration theory with a street-level bureaucracy perspective allows for a differentiated analysis of the various facets of border guards’ everyday work. Four rationalities of border-control practices are identified and compared: security, humanitarian, cost-calculation, and pragmatic rationality. I argue that, by considering both the specific goals and imperatives of border control and the characteristics of street-level bureaucrats acting within a state organisation, these entangled logics explain the complex and incoherent social reality of border control. More generally, the results contribute to organisational theory by pointing to the importance of taking into account that multiple entangled rationalities structure the practices of an organisation’s members.

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Social Policies as a Tool of Migration Control

Cited by 55 publications

References 21 publications

Deserving the Right to Work? Immigration Officials and the Work Permit in Germany

Deserving the Right to Work? Immigration Officials and the Work Permit in Germany

What Drives the Immigration-Welfare Policy Link? Comparing Germany, France and the United Kingdom

Shaping migration at the border: the entangled rationalities of border control practices

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