The Evolution of Migration Management in the Global North

Oelgemöller, Christina

doi:10.4324/9781315644547

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“…Refugee communities have little to no influence on which countries will provide resettlement opportunities and what related services will entail. Resettlement processes are guided by nations in power and focus on border maintenance in ways that further disenfranchise and other refugee communities (Besteman, 2016;Brons, 2015;Darrow & Scholl, 2020;Oelgemoller, 2017). In this study, participants recognized the power of othering attitudes and rhetoric in reduced resettlement opportunities (Bier, 2018), fearing further restrictions based on these attitudes.…”

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“I Remember When Donald Trump Was Elected. It Broke a lot of Refugees’ Hearts”

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Shaw

2022

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Recent U.S. refugee policy and political rhetoric have sanctioned anti-refugee sentiment, fostering beliefs of refugees as other, threatening, or less than. Following the transition into the Trump administration, interviews with 88 refugees resettled long-term in the U.S. were conducted to examine the impact of the post-2016 political climate. Major themes included feelings of uncertainty regarding refugee status and stability, changes in perception of U.S. citizenship, and a sense of unwelcome. The harmful effects of political environments must be recognized in order to appropriately support refugee communities through social service programming and advocacy. Social workers can elevate refugee voices while working to improve resettlement services and enhance supportive social policy. Increased attention to refugee perspectives may facilitate understanding and decrease stigma moving forward in a new political era.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 89%

“…Borders are closed due to perceptions of financial, security, and cultural risks (Betts, 2015;Long, 2013). The Global North dominates discourse regarding how and by whom refugees should be aided, maintaining an emphasis on border protection at the expense of those who are displaced (Besteman, 2016;Oelgemoller, 2017).…”

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“I Remember When Donald Trump Was Elected. It Broke a lot of Refugees’ Hearts”

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Shaw

2022

ASW

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“…In the context of migration, these calls are also driven by the rise of 'migration management', which has become the dominant paradigm of migration policy. Due to its promise to create triple-win situations that migration benefits countries of origin and destination as well as migrants themselves, the migration management paradigm implicates a demand for more and 'better' knowledge on migration (Boswell, 2009;Geiger and Pe´coud, 2010;Olgem€ oller, 2017). Because of the authority attributed to numerical 'facts' (Hansen, 2015), this demand often translates into calls for better statistical data on migration, as Stephan Scheel and Funda Ustek-Spilda (2019: 631) explain in their article.…”

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Enacting migration through data practices

2019

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Today, migration features prominently in headlines and political debates. How many people immigrate in a given year and the question of how to regulate migration can decide elections or, as recently demonstrated by the vote for Brexit in the UK, shape the future of the European Union (EU). In the context of this intensifying politicization of migration, though, the knowledge practices that are mobilized to constitute migrations as intelligible, actionable objects of policy-making and related disputes and interventions of government have not yet received much scholarly attention. Such knowledge practices include, for instance, the production of migration statistics, the registration of migrant bodies in biometric databases, the projection of future migration flows or the visualization of migration routes used by illegalized migrants, as in the annual Risk Analysis Reports of the EU border-agency FRONTEX in Figure 1. 1 This inattention is astonishing because, from an epistemic point of view, migration does not exist independently of the concepts, definitions, methods, statistics, visualizations and various other data practices that are mobilized to produce knowledge on migration for the purposes of its 'management'. Commonly understood as movement to and residency in another nation-state from a previous country of residence, migration refers to the decisions, practices and movements of scores of people who move and criss-cross national dividing lines in various ways and for various reasons and time-spans. Hence, migration is not a reality 'out there' to which policy-makers and other stakeholders have direct access. Rather, what is known, negotiated and targeted as migration is mediated by a plethora of data practices, including registering, enumerating, counting and estimating to storing, cleaning, imputing, extrapolating and anticipating. These data practices, while often framed as matters of technocratic expertise, are of course political, sustaining the knowledge regimes that inform and shape migration policies, border regimes and migration management. The contributions to this special issue (SI)

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“…From a governmentality perspective, the convergence of state, intergovernmental, private, non-governmental and humanitarian practice around an agenda of Migration Management represents a distinct rationality that disciplines human mobility in ways that align with the assumptions of international space, the demands of global capital and a liberal international order (Andrijasevic and Walters, 2010;Bigo, 2002;Geiger and Pe´coud, 2013;Georgi, 2010;Oelgem€ oller, 2017;Soguk, 1999). This is not something reducible to a top-down form of population control.…”

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Mobility and its discontents: Seeing beyond international space and progressive time

McNevin

2019

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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Why do international space and progressive time continue to be taken as the given foundations for the conditions under which mobility can be governed? Despite a long-standing critique of prevailing geopolitical and chronopolitical assumptions, these space–time parameters exhibit extraordinary tenacity. This article grapples with the reasons why. It also asks what it would it take to imagine a future in which questions about human mobility did not begin with the assumptions of international space and progressive time, or by extension, with premises associated with borders, citizens and migrants. Engaging with scholarship that attempts to provide conceptual, analytical and methodological resources to begin to imagine differently, the paper raises some cautions about the ubiquity of mobility as a framework through which to initiate such a project. It looks to a variety of historical and contemporary social movements – including but not only those associated with migrants – as a basis for inquiry into new horizons of the possible.

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The Evolution of Migration Management in the Global North

Cited by 13 publications

References 22 publications

“I Remember When Donald Trump Was Elected. It Broke a lot of Refugees’ Hearts”

“I Remember When Donald Trump Was Elected. It Broke a lot of Refugees’ Hearts”

Enacting migration through data practices

Mobility and its discontents: Seeing beyond international space and progressive time

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