Studying Migration Governance from the Bottom-Up

Gravelle, Matthew; Ellermann, Antje; Dauvergne, Catherine

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-5864-7_5

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“…Following HB 56’s passage, churches and advocacy groups vowed to intentionally break the law, whilst educators hinted at non-compliance and staged teach-ins drawing parallels between Jim Crow and the legislation (Easton, 2013). These outcomes provide support for broader claims that actors on the ground – whether members of the public or street-level bureaucrats – frequently reject official narratives and policies in favour of discretionary activities that humanize migrants and shield them from enforcement and exclusion (Gibney, 2008; Gravelle et al, 2013). Nonetheless, there is the risk that government policies, by imposing behavioural constraints and redefining the ‘rules of the game’, may limit such outcomes (Marrow, 2009).…”

Section: Watchful Citizens: Deputization Responsibilization and Autonomizationmentioning

confidence: 62%

“…More recently, Human Rights Watch has reported a wave of xenophobic violence in Greece as vigilante gangs have begun attacking immigrants and exhorting them to leave the country (Fronista and Maltezou, 2012). Finally, in response to an influx of undocumented migrants, South African farmers along the Zimbabwean border have formed armed patrols that detain migrants, request proof of legal status, and, when none is provided, shackle and transport individuals to the police (Gravelle et al, 2013).…”

Section: Watchful Citizens: Deputization Responsibilization and Autonomizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Watchful Citizens

Walsh

2014

Social & Legal Studies

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To refine wholesale accounts of transnationalism, scholars have cited the amplification of border enforcement and immigration control. Whilst received analysis emphasizes multiple processes whether border militarization, mass deportation or the crossdeputization of local authorities, other trends remain unexplored. Employing the insights of scholarship on the diffusion and decentralization of policing and crime control, this work interrogates the enlistment of private individuals in official gatekeeping efforts. Drawing on relevant empirical examples -anonymous tip lines, voluntary immigration posses, border vigilantes, local anti-immigrant ordinances and other practices that compel, encourage and include societal participation -it assesses three modalities of citizen involvement: deputization, responsibilization and autonomization. Each displays distinct state-society relations and techniques for mobilizing societal actors and energies. In addition to illuminating the complexities, consequences and contradictions of contemporary immigration control, this article enriches understandings of social exclusion and the redistribution and transposition of government amidst neoliberal restructuring.

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Section: Watchful Citizens: Deputization Responsibilization and Autonomizationmentioning

confidence: 62%

Section: Watchful Citizens: Deputization Responsibilization and Autonomizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Watchful Citizens

Walsh

2014

Social & Legal Studies

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“…However, the influence of subnational bodies on emigration policies and the call for democratic decentralization have pushed towards an increasing role of subnational migration governance. Subnational migration governance involves both subnational state governments and institutions, as well as domestic and international non-state actors, including private players, playing a direct role at the subnational level (Gravelle et al 2012).…”

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“…On first consideration, subnational policies and politics may appear to be of lesser relevance to the study of migration policies, given that the management of most of the matters related to international migration generally come under the jurisdiction of national governments (Gravelle et al 2012). However, the democratic decentralization 3 promoted by the international organizations has provided a structural opportunity for the subnational governments to act as more important players in migration governance .…”

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The South Asia to Gulf Migration Governance Complex

2022

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is the research lead at the Centre for Indian Migrant Studies (CIMS), an organization that, for the past 20 years, has stood for protecting migrant rights. He has written about and researched international labour migration, migration governance, decentralization, political economy of migration, and rights of migrant workers since 2012. He is also pursuing a PhD at the Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India. He associates with various organizations such as the Internatioanl Labour Organization, International Organization for Migration, and the Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA) as a research consultant. By accepting one of the policy suggestions from one of his research papers, the Kerala Government, a subnational government in India, has created an assembly for the inclusive participation of migrants in policy making.

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“…This article extends the literature on the racialization of Latinos by examining the role of local law enforcement agencies in the production and punishment of “illegality.” My goal is to move beyond a description of broad general trends in immigration law to consider the on-the-ground processes that criminalize Latinos and channel them into the immigration enforcement system. I examine immigration control “from the bottom up,” arguing that the power of the state emerges through the daily practices of institutional actors that form part of the crimmigration system (Gravelle, Ellermann, and Dauvergne 2012).…”

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Racializing Crimmigration

Armenta

2016

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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Deporting “criminal aliens” has become the highest priority in American immigration enforcement. Today, most deportations are achieved through the “crimmigration” system, a term that describes the convergence of the criminal justice and immigration enforcement systems. Emerging research argues that U.S. immigration enforcement is a “racial project” that subordinates and racializes Latino residents in the United States. This article examines the role of local law enforcement agencies in the racialization process by focusing on the techniques and logics that drive law enforcement practices across two agencies, I argue that local law enforcement agents racialize Latinos by punishing illegality through their daily, and sometimes mundane, practices. Investigatory traffic stops put Latinos at disproportionate risk of arrest and citation, and processing at the local jail subjects unauthorized immigrants to deportation. Although a variety of local actors sustain the deportation system, most do not see themselves as active participants in immigrant removal and they explain their behavior through a colorblind ideology. This colorblind ideology obscures and naturalizes how organizational practices and laws converge to systematically criminalize and punish Latinos in the United States.

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Studying Migration Governance from the Bottom-Up

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