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Mobility as a Forced Condition – Uneven Access to Stable Living Conditions

Anna Wyss — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 08:30:49 +0000

Asylum and migration policies seek to steer those who can enter and remain on national territory, but also to curb migrants’ onward mobility. The Dublin Regulation, for instance, was introduced to prevent so-called secondary movements within Europe – and thus, to limit the mobility of ‘unwanted’ migrants. Little attention is

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Facilitating Deportation in Welfare Offices – Outsourcing Migration Control

Lisa Marie Borrelli — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 07:30:32 +0000

Social services, organizations offering integration courses and language certificates, and competence centers for integration in Switzerland are facing an increase in migration control tasks generally undertaken by migration authorities. This broadening of responsibilities, referred to as ‘outsourcing’ of migration control and management, manifests through policies that force social services to

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Movies of Encampment – A Dialogue About Confined Spaces

Lisa Marie Borrelli — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 08:30:56 +0000

Imagine living in a confined space, without a feeling of being “home” and being controlled by institutional actors. With this in mind, three filmmakers tackled the theme of encampment. They joined our recent discussion after the first “On the Mov(i)e” event, sharing their reflections on the conceptualization of encampment and

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The Rise of Sanctuary Cities in the United States

Loren Collingwood — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 08:30:01 +0000

Civil conflict embroiled El Salvador and Guatemala in the 1980s leading to an exodus of refugees seeking asylum in the United States. These events birthed the sanctuary movement, and later the sanctuary city movement. The second growth of sanctuary cities came in response to Bush’s Post-9/11 era immigration security crackdown.

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Implementing Dublin – Perspectives on the Legislation-Practice Continuum

Lisa Marie Borrelli — Mon, 13 May 2019 07:30:21 +0000

When examining how migration laws and policies are implemented, the relation between those written texts and enacted practices becomes of crucial interest. This was highlighted in our collaborative research on contested migration control in the Schengen Area. In the following, we will focus on the Dublin Regulation and its implementation

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Social Work Between a Handyman and a Humanitarian Actor?

Lisa Marie Borrelli — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 08:00:23 +0000

With increasingly restrictive migration regimes throughout Europe and a ‘race-to-the bottom’- attitude of previously more generous states to only follow the minimal legal requirements set by the European Union, third actors involved in the ‘migration industry’ are often caught in a moral dilemma. States increasingly outsource migration control to NGOs

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The Wall That Already Exists at the U.S.-Mexican Border

Katrin Sontag — Thu, 03 May 2018 09:39:09 +0000

While building a wall between the United States and Mexico is a dominant media topic, the border is already fortified in many places. Art and graffiti, reminiscent of the Berlin wall, is expressing the mourning of the dead and reminding the observers of freedom and peace in Tijuana – a walk at its most Western edge.

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Deported to Mexico as Strangers

Katrin Sontag — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 09:35:14 +0000

More than 100 000 people were deported from the United States to Mexico in 2017. Some of them have been living in the United States as undocumented immigrants for many years. Some of them do not have family connections in Mexico or speak Spanish. What happens once they arrive in Mexico? A visit to a migrant shelter in Tijuana.

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Complying with What? Non-Compliance in the UK Immigration Detention

Patrycja Pinkowska — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 14:44:24 +0000

The notion of non-compliance with immigration policy and enforcement is a recurring theme, which regularly comes up both in reviewing government policy and through ethnographic work with men detained in the Verne immigration removal center. Non-compliance is not always the intentional manifestation of personal agency. Instead, in the messy landscape of UK immigration detention it can be another tool of domination.

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Immigration Detention in Italy: Between Security and Humanity

Francesca Esposito — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 11:56:45 +0000

Despite the increasing scholarly attention to immigration detention around the globe, relatively little is known about life and the lived experiences of the people inside these sites of confinement. This is particularly true of the perspectives of professionals who provide services in these contexts. What are the lived experiences of people working in Rome’s detention center of Ponte Galeria? What complexities, struggles and contradictions do they encounter when working inside a custodial environment?

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