Ana Aliverti
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 2201171 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ana Aliverti |
| NOMBRES | Ana |
| APELLIDO | Aliverti |
| FIRMA | ALIVERTI A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5983-0784 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 148 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Moral Bureaucracies
British asylum bureaucracy carries a paradoxical mandate: To allocate humanitarian protection while operating inside a policy regime explicitly designed to deter. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a Home Office decision‐making office, this article examines how that contradiction is materialized in mundane bureaucratic objects—a whiteboard, a letter and a plastic folder—and how it shapes the moral and emotional work of the staff who handle asyl…
Dilemas morales de los agentes de control fronterizo durante la pandemia por covid-19
This article explores the moral dilemmas faced by state agents—primarily Chilean police officers and military personnel—responsible for migration control along the Chile–Bolivia border during the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis focuses on the period between 2020 and early 2021, when irregular crossings through unauthorized border points reached their highest levels amid an unprecedented increase in the arrival of migrants, particularly Venezuelan…
Rethinking Europe’s Margins
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Caring states? Bureaucratic care, moral ideals and emotional dilemmas in British asylum and policing
This article explores everyday discourses of care among public protection police officers and asylum-screening officers in Britain. Contemporary policy rhetoric of vulnerability and care commits these bureaucracies to relieve human suffering. Through ethnographic observations and interviews, this article reveals the conflicting and profoundly moral meanings that these officials attach to care, which they claim as a central inspiration and ideal o…
Humanitarianism From Below
In this article, we empirically document the changing dynamics of border controls in the context of the COVID pandemic, and its consequences for border control workers, particularly police, border agents and the military. We focus on three areas: the Anglo-French (Dover-Calais) maritime border, the Euro-African border (Ceuta-Tetuán) and the South American border of Tarapacá-Oruro between Chile and Bolivia. We explore how sovereign strategies of c…
Modern Slavery and the Punitive–Humanitarian Complex
This paper provides a critical analysis of modern slavery (MS) policy, legislation and discourse in the United Kingdom. Challenging the suggestion that recent attempts to dilute protections and guarantees in the original MS framework represent a fundamental shift from a more humanitarian to a more punitive orientation, it argues that these two moments ought to be understood as products of a single, underlying articulation, the ‘punitive–humanitar…
Arquitecturas De Contención Contemporáneas
En las últimas décadas, la criminología de fronteras ha señalado la semejanza de las prácticas e instituciones de control migratorio con las de la justicia penal. Concluyeron acertadamente que los controles fronterizos son cada vez más punitivos, sobre todo, por la infraestructura similar a la prisión que caracteriza la expansión de los centros de detención de inmigrantes. Sin embargo, la infraestructura de control fronterizo en países de todo el…
Decolonizing the Criminal Question
This collection engages with debates within ‘criminology’ about matters of colonial power, which have come to be conceptualized through the language of ‘decolonization’. It explores the uneasy relationship between the ‘criminal question’ and colonialism, and foregrounds the relevance of the legacies of this relationship to criminological enquiries. It invites and seeks to pursue a better understanding of the links between imperialism and colonial…
Decolonising the Criminal Question
Law in the Margins
Liberal theory has long fetishized state law as a fortress against disorder, anarchy, and private violence. To prevent violence writ large, it advocated, the nation-state should be endowed with its monopoly, as the impartial and rational guardian of civilization and social peace. Yet, as critics suggest, the normative binary of law/violence and the legal purity of the state is empirically untenable and, as such, remains an ideological construct s…
Policing the Borders Within
Policing the Borders Within offers an in-depth, comprehensive exploration of the everyday working of inland border controls in Britain informed by extensive empirical material explored through the lens of wide-ranging interdisciplinary debates. In particular, this book examines afresh the relationship between policing, borders, and social order through the lens of migration policing. By charting this new landscape of everyday contemporary policin…
Manufacturing Obedience
This article reassesses the relationship between state authority and violence in the context of border controls. Drawing on empirical research conducted with immigration and police officers in the UK, I show that the use of force in this context give rise to distinctively complex ethical questions which shape institutional and individual practices, and is entangled with the legally and politically fragile authority wielded by frontline staff. Fac…
Decolonizing the criminal question
In the last years there has been a growing effort from different theoretical perspectives to interrogate critically the impact of colonialism in the past and present of institutions and practices of crime control, both at the central and peripheral contexts, as well as in the production of knowledge in the criminological field. In this feature piece we examine this debate. We offer a critical account of key themes and problems that emerge from th…
Comentario a Sabina Frederic
Introduction
For some time, the mobility of the global poor has been framed as a national security problem and policy priority for governments and inter-governmental institutions across the world (D’Appollonia and Reich, 2008; Guild, 2003; Huysmans, 2006). In this context, the police have been routinely tasked with detecting unwanted foreigners and routing them out of the country (Armenta, 2017; Weber, 2013) or, as Giulia Fabini (2017) explained in the case o…
Crimmigrant Nations
Benevolent Policing? Vulnerability and the Moral Pains of Border Controls
In the United Kingdom, as in other jurisdictions, the language of vulnerability and 'safeguarding', protection and care is becoming increasingly prevalent, often dovetailing with punitive rationales and practices. Drawing from empirical material collected during a study on police-immigration partnership in everyday policing, the paper analyses how contemporaneous punitive and humanitarian turns in criminal justice are experienced by law enforceme…
Patrolling the 'Thin Blue Line' in a World in Motion
This article examines the contemporary role of the police in patrolling the nation's territorial and social borders. The police play an important role in framing ideas and perceptions of order and disorder. By selecting when and against whom to apply coercion, the police not only constitute crime and criminals. They shape the boundaries of civility and patrol the margins of citizenship. Such role has been revitalized lately as they are tasked wit…
Law, Nation and Race
This article explores the place of law and legality in the formation of British national identity and its reproduction (and contestation) inside the courtroom. It draws on sociolegal scholarship on legal culture, legal consciousness and ‘law and colonialism’ to shed light on the cultural power of the law to forge national subjectivities. The law does more than adjudicating justice and imposing sanctions. Its symbolic power lies in its capacity to…
Enlisting the Public in the Policing of Immigration
As border policing is no longer circumscribed to external borders and increasingly performed inland, in Britain migration work relies on the assistance of a range of unorthodox partners, including the public. The unearthing of the 'community' as a crucial partner to police a myriad of public safety issues, including migration, begs the question of what are the implications of mobilizing citizenship for law enforcement? This paper argues that enli…
Crimes of Mobility
Winner of the 2014 British Society of Criminology Book Prize This book examines the role of criminal law in the enforcement of immigration controls over the last two decades in Britain. The criminalization of immigration status has historically served functions of exclusion and control against those who defy the state’s powers over its territory and population. In the last two decades, the powers to exclude and punish have been enhanced by the ex…
Making people criminal
This article analyses the recent expansion of immigration offences in Britain. Drawing on criminal law scholarship, it considers the reasons for relying on the criminal law in immigration enforcement. On the one hand, criminal law is used symbolically. In this view, the creation of criminal offences may be read as an attempt to appease a sector of the electorate, the media and the Opposition about the ‘immigration problem.’ By introducing these o…
Exploring the Function of Criminal Law in the Policing of Foreigners
This paper looks at the decision-making process in cases involving immigration-related crimes. Based on interviews with practitioners and immigration staff and the analysis of court-files, it disentangles the criteria guiding both enforcement officers and prosecutors in the decision to criminally proceed against suspected immigration offenders. The reasons behind the policy and practice of prosecuting immigration crimes show that criminal law is …
Globalization and Borders
Weber and Pickering’s book unravels a striking and largely under-researched facet of immigration as a growing global phenomenon: the death of many of those who embark on that journey. The analysis is focused on three main sites dividing the ‘Global North’ from the ‘Global South’: the United States–Mexico border, Australia and Europe. The central thesis of the book is that these deaths are no accidents, nor are they unforeseeable causalities. Webe…
Benevolent Policing? Vulnerability and the Moral Pains of Border Controls
In the United Kingdom, as in other jurisdictions, the language of vulnerability and 'safeguarding', protection and care is becoming increasingly prevalent, often dovetailing with punitive rationales and practices. Drawing from empirical material collected during a study on police-immigration partnership in everyday policing, the paper analyses how contemporaneous punitive and humanitarian turns in criminal justice are experienced by law enforceme…
Making people criminal
This article analyses the recent expansion of immigration offences in Britain. Drawing on criminal law scholarship, it considers the reasons for relying on the criminal law in immigration enforcement. On the one hand, criminal law is used symbolically. In this view, the creation of criminal offences may be read as an attempt to appease a sector of the electorate, the media and the Opposition about the ‘immigration problem.’ By introducing these o…
Enlisting the Public in the Policing of Immigration
As border policing is no longer circumscribed to external borders and increasingly performed inland, in Britain migration work relies on the assistance of a range of unorthodox partners, including the public. The unearthing of the 'community' as a crucial partner to police a myriad of public safety issues, including migration, begs the question of what are the implications of mobilizing citizenship for law enforcement? This paper argues that enli…
Patrolling the 'Thin Blue Line' in a World in Motion
This article examines the contemporary role of the police in patrolling the nation's territorial and social borders. The police play an important role in framing ideas and perceptions of order and disorder. By selecting when and against whom to apply coercion, the police not only constitute crime and criminals. They shape the boundaries of civility and patrol the margins of citizenship. Such role has been revitalized lately as they are tasked wit…
Decolonizing the criminal question
In the last years there has been a growing effort from different theoretical perspectives to interrogate critically the impact of colonialism in the past and present of institutions and practices of crime control, both at the central and peripheral contexts, as well as in the production of knowledge in the criminological field. In this feature piece we examine this debate. We offer a critical account of key themes and problems that emerge from th…
Crimmigrant Nations
Exploring the Function of Criminal Law in the Policing of Foreigners
This paper looks at the decision-making process in cases involving immigration-related crimes. Based on interviews with practitioners and immigration staff and the analysis of court-files, it disentangles the criteria guiding both enforcement officers and prosecutors in the decision to criminally proceed against suspected immigration offenders. The reasons behind the policy and practice of prosecuting immigration crimes show that criminal law is …
Law, Nation and Race
This article explores the place of law and legality in the formation of British national identity and its reproduction (and contestation) inside the courtroom. It draws on sociolegal scholarship on legal culture, legal consciousness and ‘law and colonialism’ to shed light on the cultural power of the law to forge national subjectivities. The law does more than adjudicating justice and imposing sanctions. Its symbolic power lies in its capacity to…
Manufacturing Obedience
This article reassesses the relationship between state authority and violence in the context of border controls. Drawing on empirical research conducted with immigration and police officers in the UK, I show that the use of force in this context give rise to distinctively complex ethical questions which shape institutional and individual practices, and is entangled with the legally and politically fragile authority wielded by frontline staff. Fac…
Introduction
For some time, the mobility of the global poor has been framed as a national security problem and policy priority for governments and inter-governmental institutions across the world (D’Appollonia and Reich, 2008; Guild, 2003; Huysmans, 2006). In this context, the police have been routinely tasked with detecting unwanted foreigners and routing them out of the country (Armenta, 2017; Weber, 2013) or, as Giulia Fabini (2017) explained in the case o…
Caring states? Bureaucratic care, moral ideals and emotional dilemmas in British asylum and policing
This article explores everyday discourses of care among public protection police officers and asylum-screening officers in Britain. Contemporary policy rhetoric of vulnerability and care commits these bureaucracies to relieve human suffering. Through ethnographic observations and interviews, this article reveals the conflicting and profoundly moral meanings that these officials attach to care, which they claim as a central inspiration and ideal o…
Law in the Margins
Liberal theory has long fetishized state law as a fortress against disorder, anarchy, and private violence. To prevent violence writ large, it advocated, the nation-state should be endowed with its monopoly, as the impartial and rational guardian of civilization and social peace. Yet, as critics suggest, the normative binary of law/violence and the legal purity of the state is empirically untenable and, as such, remains an ideological construct s…
Modern Slavery and the Punitive–Humanitarian Complex
This paper provides a critical analysis of modern slavery (MS) policy, legislation and discourse in the United Kingdom. Challenging the suggestion that recent attempts to dilute protections and guarantees in the original MS framework represent a fundamental shift from a more humanitarian to a more punitive orientation, it argues that these two moments ought to be understood as products of a single, underlying articulation, the ‘punitive–humanitar…
Making people criminal
This article analyses the recent expansion of immigration offences in Britain. Drawing on criminal law scholarship, it considers the reasons for relying on the criminal law in immigration enforcement. On the one hand, criminal law is used symbolically. In this view, the creation of criminal offences may be read as an attempt to appease a sector of the electorate, the media and the Opposition about the ‘immigration problem.’ By introducing these o…
Exploring the Function of Criminal Law in the Policing of Foreigners
This paper looks at the decision-making process in cases involving immigration-related crimes. Based on interviews with practitioners and immigration staff and the analysis of court-files, it disentangles the criteria guiding both enforcement officers and prosecutors in the decision to criminally proceed against suspected immigration offenders. The reasons behind the policy and practice of prosecuting immigration crimes show that criminal law is …
Globalization and Borders
Weber and Pickering’s book unravels a striking and largely under-researched facet of immigration as a growing global phenomenon: the death of many of those who embark on that journey. The analysis is focused on three main sites dividing the ‘Global North’ from the ‘Global South’: the United States–Mexico border, Australia and Europe. The central thesis of the book is that these deaths are no accidents, nor are they unforeseeable causalities. Webe…
Crimes of Mobility
Winner of the 2014 British Society of Criminology Book Prize This book examines the role of criminal law in the enforcement of immigration controls over the last two decades in Britain. The criminalization of immigration status has historically served functions of exclusion and control against those who defy the state’s powers over its territory and population. In the last two decades, the powers to exclude and punish have been enhanced by the ex…
Enlisting the Public in the Policing of Immigration
As border policing is no longer circumscribed to external borders and increasingly performed inland, in Britain migration work relies on the assistance of a range of unorthodox partners, including the public. The unearthing of the 'community' as a crucial partner to police a myriad of public safety issues, including migration, begs the question of what are the implications of mobilizing citizenship for law enforcement? This paper argues that enli…
Law, Nation and Race
This article explores the place of law and legality in the formation of British national identity and its reproduction (and contestation) inside the courtroom. It draws on sociolegal scholarship on legal culture, legal consciousness and ‘law and colonialism’ to shed light on the cultural power of the law to forge national subjectivities. The law does more than adjudicating justice and imposing sanctions. Its symbolic power lies in its capacity to…
Patrolling the 'Thin Blue Line' in a World in Motion
This article examines the contemporary role of the police in patrolling the nation's territorial and social borders. The police play an important role in framing ideas and perceptions of order and disorder. By selecting when and against whom to apply coercion, the police not only constitute crime and criminals. They shape the boundaries of civility and patrol the margins of citizenship. Such role has been revitalized lately as they are tasked wit…
Introduction
For some time, the mobility of the global poor has been framed as a national security problem and policy priority for governments and inter-governmental institutions across the world (D’Appollonia and Reich, 2008; Guild, 2003; Huysmans, 2006). In this context, the police have been routinely tasked with detecting unwanted foreigners and routing them out of the country (Armenta, 2017; Weber, 2013) or, as Giulia Fabini (2017) explained in the case o…
Crimmigrant Nations
Benevolent Policing? Vulnerability and the Moral Pains of Border Controls
In the United Kingdom, as in other jurisdictions, the language of vulnerability and 'safeguarding', protection and care is becoming increasingly prevalent, often dovetailing with punitive rationales and practices. Drawing from empirical material collected during a study on police-immigration partnership in everyday policing, the paper analyses how contemporaneous punitive and humanitarian turns in criminal justice are experienced by law enforceme…
Policing the Borders Within
Policing the Borders Within offers an in-depth, comprehensive exploration of the everyday working of inland border controls in Britain informed by extensive empirical material explored through the lens of wide-ranging interdisciplinary debates. In particular, this book examines afresh the relationship between policing, borders, and social order through the lens of migration policing. By charting this new landscape of everyday contemporary policin…
Manufacturing Obedience
This article reassesses the relationship between state authority and violence in the context of border controls. Drawing on empirical research conducted with immigration and police officers in the UK, I show that the use of force in this context give rise to distinctively complex ethical questions which shape institutional and individual practices, and is entangled with the legally and politically fragile authority wielded by frontline staff. Fac…
Decolonizing the criminal question
In the last years there has been a growing effort from different theoretical perspectives to interrogate critically the impact of colonialism in the past and present of institutions and practices of crime control, both at the central and peripheral contexts, as well as in the production of knowledge in the criminological field. In this feature piece we examine this debate. We offer a critical account of key themes and problems that emerge from th…
Comentario a Sabina Frederic
Decolonizing the Criminal Question
This collection engages with debates within ‘criminology’ about matters of colonial power, which have come to be conceptualized through the language of ‘decolonization’. It explores the uneasy relationship between the ‘criminal question’ and colonialism, and foregrounds the relevance of the legacies of this relationship to criminological enquiries. It invites and seeks to pursue a better understanding of the links between imperialism and colonial…
Decolonising the Criminal Question
Law in the Margins
Liberal theory has long fetishized state law as a fortress against disorder, anarchy, and private violence. To prevent violence writ large, it advocated, the nation-state should be endowed with its monopoly, as the impartial and rational guardian of civilization and social peace. Yet, as critics suggest, the normative binary of law/violence and the legal purity of the state is empirically untenable and, as such, remains an ideological construct s…
Humanitarianism From Below
In this article, we empirically document the changing dynamics of border controls in the context of the COVID pandemic, and its consequences for border control workers, particularly police, border agents and the military. We focus on three areas: the Anglo-French (Dover-Calais) maritime border, the Euro-African border (Ceuta-Tetuán) and the South American border of Tarapacá-Oruro between Chile and Bolivia. We explore how sovereign strategies of c…
Modern Slavery and the Punitive–Humanitarian Complex
This paper provides a critical analysis of modern slavery (MS) policy, legislation and discourse in the United Kingdom. Challenging the suggestion that recent attempts to dilute protections and guarantees in the original MS framework represent a fundamental shift from a more humanitarian to a more punitive orientation, it argues that these two moments ought to be understood as products of a single, underlying articulation, the ‘punitive–humanitar…
Arquitecturas De Contención Contemporáneas
En las últimas décadas, la criminología de fronteras ha señalado la semejanza de las prácticas e instituciones de control migratorio con las de la justicia penal. Concluyeron acertadamente que los controles fronterizos son cada vez más punitivos, sobre todo, por la infraestructura similar a la prisión que caracteriza la expansión de los centros de detención de inmigrantes. Sin embargo, la infraestructura de control fronterizo en países de todo el…
Moral Bureaucracies
British asylum bureaucracy carries a paradoxical mandate: To allocate humanitarian protection while operating inside a policy regime explicitly designed to deter. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a Home Office decision‐making office, this article examines how that contradiction is materialized in mundane bureaucratic objects—a whiteboard, a letter and a plastic folder—and how it shapes the moral and emotional work of the staff who handle asyl…
Dilemas morales de los agentes de control fronterizo durante la pandemia por covid-19
This article explores the moral dilemmas faced by state agents—primarily Chilean police officers and military personnel—responsible for migration control along the Chile–Bolivia border during the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis focuses on the period between 2020 and early 2021, when irregular crossings through unauthorized border points reached their highest levels amid an unprecedented increase in the arrival of migrants, particularly Venezuelan…
Rethinking Europe’s Margins
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Caring states? Bureaucratic care, moral ideals and emotional dilemmas in British asylum and policing
This article explores everyday discourses of care among public protection police officers and asylum-screening officers in Britain. Contemporary policy rhetoric of vulnerability and care commits these bureaucracies to relieve human suffering. Through ethnographic observations and interviews, this article reveals the conflicting and profoundly moral meanings that these officials attach to care, which they claim as a central inspiration and ideal o…
Political science (14 obras) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (12 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Criminology (9 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Politics (8 obras) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (6 obras) · Geography (5 obras) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (5 obras)