Anatomy of a crisis
Governing Youth Mobility Through Vulnerability
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3617441 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lauren Heidbrink (0000-0002-2375-8047, California State University System, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 988-1005 |
| Publication date | 2021-04-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Community (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1369183x.2020.1797479 |
| OpenAlex | W3044850312 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
| References cited | 43 |
In 2018, the Italian Coast Guard rescued 190 migrants onboard an overcrowded vessel from Libya. Held at sea for five days, the Italian government finally permitted the Coast Guard to dock in Catania, Sicily, yet refused to allow the migrants to disembark. This article begins by dissecting the anatomy of this crisis, tracing the diverse actors and institutions involved in its creation and resolution through first-hand accounts. Multi-sited ethnographic research reveals how a diverse set of actors enlisted a hierarchy of vulnerability to secure the release of migrants onboard, privileging unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in particular. The article examines how this hierarchy has proven effective in legislating specialised protections and services and accessing limited humanitarian aid. However, a hierarchy of vulnerability has two paradoxical yet mutually reinforcing consequences. First, focusing on the vulnerabilities of increasingly narrow categories of individuals, such as unaccompanied children, distracts from examining how state policies produce vulnerability. Second, the humanitarian organisations’ emphasis on vulnerability re-inscribes social boundaries, making state protections and services progressively difficult to access. In so doing, both the state and humanitarian organisations govern youth mobility through vulnerability
Computer security · Criminology · Ethnography · Hierarchy · Political science · Refugee · Sociology · Anthropology · Law · Migration and Exile Studies · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Perceptions of Returnees Concerning Their Rehabilitation and Reinstatement in Swat District, Pakistan
Gender and Migration
Vulnerability in the Context of Migration
Fortress Europe is an insult to the values of the EU”
Unaccompanied Adolescent Minors’ Experiences of Exception and Abandonment in the Ventimiglia Border Space
Loops of Violence(s) Within Europe’s Governance of Migration in Libya, Italy, Greece, and Belgium
Age assessment and migration control
Don’t let them go”
Social practices with young refugees and asylum seekers
Who Counts as Child? Using Child as Method and Fanon to Challenge Figurations of Childhood
In the best interest of the child
Eroding Protections, Expanding Enforcement
The haunted and the hunted
“El Mexicano se ríe de sus desgracias”
Instrumentalizing vulnerabilities
A Scoping Review of the Vulnerabilities of Syrian Refugees Amid Overlapping Crises in Jordan, Lebanon, and Türkiye
Vulnerability as a Globally Mobile Policy Concept in Migration Governance
Bordering from within
The Evolution of Vulnerability in Norwegian Refugee Debates
Navigating Vulnerability in the Context of Resettlement
(Un)sustainable futures and the “vulnerable other
The Crisis of Everyday Self-other Misalignments between Unaccompanied Minors and Adult Professionals
The Vulnerability of Young Refugees Living in Reception Centres in Luxembourg
Defining, operationalising and translating 'vulnerability' in humanitarian work in Jordan
Making 'Best interest' visible
Gender, racialisation, and border regimes
Vulnerability governance as differential inclusion
Toward a Critical Phenomenology of Vulnerability
Violence Against Women
Health problems of newly arrived migrants and refugees in Europe
Climate change and human health
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Rethinking Vulnerability and Resistance
Rules, Paper, Status
Migranthood
Migrant Youth, Transnational Families, and the State
The crisis seen from below, within, and against
Migration, Development and the ‘Migration and Development Nexus’
Liquid advocacy
The sea as humanitarian space
Seeking Asylum in Times of Crisis
Gender, Securitization and Transit
The Emergence of Urban Border Spaces in Europe
Moving children? Child trafficking, child migration, and child rights
Unaccompanied migrant minors
Labour geographies on the move
Refugees at Europe's Borders
Seeking refuge in Europe
Europe's failed ‘fight’ against irregular migration
Governing migration through death in Europe and the US
Children’s agency and migration
EU Refugee Policies and Politics in Times of Crisis
Remaking the world in our own image
Repoliticization Through Search and Rescue? Humanitarian NGOs and Migration Management in the Central Mediterranean
Arab Springs Making Space
Visibility, resilience, vulnerability in young migrants
Italy
Humanitarianism with a neo-liberal face
| Unique citing works | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 7 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |