Anja K Franck
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3759844 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Anja K Franck |
| NOMBRES | Anja K |
| APELLIDO | Franck |
| FIRMA | FRANCK A K |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3902-5649 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 129 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Numbers, Ignorance and Swedish Migration Policy
Starting in 2015, Sweden embarked upon a series of policy changes designed to reduce the number of migrants arriving to Sweden. Even though the effect of these policies on migrant arrivals remained unclear and a number of societal actors warned of negative 'collateral' effects, Sweden pushed ahead with these policy reforms. Through investigating the official policy documents produced by the government and the formal public consultation (remiss) p…
Hacking migration control
What sort of political actors are international migrants? This article approaches this question by studying how migrants move between legality and illegality. We have struggled to understand the political content of this behaviour, because we have viewed it as either an attempt to gain the state’s acceptance as quasi-citizens or an attempt to autonomously subvert the state. However, migrants are more ambivalent political actors than either of the…
Jocular Ethnography
This article makes the case for why the jocular is both methodologically and analytically important in ethnographic work on migration.More precisely, it argues that we need to pay explicit attention to the productive work that the humorous does in our ethnographic encounters -and analyse what it means for the types of knowledge that we (re)produce around migrants' experiences, subjectivities and struggles.Drawing on ethnographic work conducted in…
The ‘street politics’ of migrant il/legality
Immigration control constitutes a particular technique for regulating urban space and for controlling and disciplining migrant subjects within it. Unlike other manifestations of state power in exemplary urban settings, the architecture of urban immigration control is not recognisable through grand buildings or walls, but rather through its momentary presence and continuously shifting location: ad hoc identity controls in public spaces, roadblocks…
Refugees as/at risk
It is well established in the literature that migration has become increasingly securitized. In this article, we examine the racialized and gendered grids of intelligibility that make securitizing moves possible in the migration context. Specifically, we argue that the securitization of migration during the so-called EU refugee crisis comes into being through intertwined and mutually dependent representations of racialized, masculinized threat an…
Corrupt(ing) Borders
Critical border studies have shown that it is no longer very useful to think of borders as fixed demarcations at the edge of the nation state. Instead, such scholarship has illustrated how contemporary borders are enacted both beyond and within state territory—as well as how borders derive their meaning from the various bordering practices that determine who is (not) welcome on the ‘inside’. In this study the role of corruption in such bordering …
The public and the private in guestworker schemes
While discussions of state involvement in migration generally focus on restriction, states are actively involved in the promotion of labour migration through guestworker programmes, among other examples. While these programmes are state-sponsored, they often rely heavily on private actors in order to function. Drawing on the examples of the H-2 visa in the United States and the recruitment of foreign workers to Malaysia, this paper examines the c…
The Lesvos Refugee Crisis as Disaster Capitalism
Navigating Migrant Trajectories through Private Actors
Recent research on the ‘migration industry’ has provided a means to interrogate how private actors come to be used as a means to facilitate, direct and control migration. Both through incorporating private actors into security functions and outsourcing certain functions to labour brokers, the use of migration industry actors is an important part of the ways in which the state works to maintain its sovereign control over territory and the ways peo…
Im/Mobility and Deportability in Transit
Over the course of the so‐called ‘European refugee crisis’ hundreds and thousands of refugees have arrived to the Greek island of Lesvos. In order to obtain permission to leave the island, and thus continue their journeys towards northern Europe, arriving refugees first have to go through a registration process. During 2015, this registration resulted in refugees being given an ‘administrative deportation order,’ which de jure expelled the refuge…
A(nother) geography of fear
While scholarship around urban fear has brought forward important insights around the relationship between fear, mobility and social exclusion, questions relating to legal exclusion have largely been left outside the scope of inquiry. In cities around the world there are, however, a growing number of people who are not only de facto excluded from rights to/within the city (based on their gender, class, age etc.) – but de jure excluded based on th…
Factors motivating women's informal micro‐entrepreneurship
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors which motivate women's informal micro‐entrepreneurship in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach The qualitative analysis employed in this paper is based upon empirical findings from field work conducted in the state of Penang on the north‐western coast of Peninsular Malaysia. In total, 39 hawkers (petty traders) were interviewed using an interview guide which contained open‐ended questio…
Refugees as/at risk
It is well established in the literature that migration has become increasingly securitized. In this article, we examine the racialized and gendered grids of intelligibility that make securitizing moves possible in the migration context. Specifically, we argue that the securitization of migration during the so-called EU refugee crisis comes into being through intertwined and mutually dependent representations of racialized, masculinized threat an…
The Lesvos Refugee Crisis as Disaster Capitalism
Hacking migration control
What sort of political actors are international migrants? This article approaches this question by studying how migrants move between legality and illegality. We have struggled to understand the political content of this behaviour, because we have viewed it as either an attempt to gain the state’s acceptance as quasi-citizens or an attempt to autonomously subvert the state. However, migrants are more ambivalent political actors than either of the…
The public and the private in guestworker schemes
While discussions of state involvement in migration generally focus on restriction, states are actively involved in the promotion of labour migration through guestworker programmes, among other examples. While these programmes are state-sponsored, they often rely heavily on private actors in order to function. Drawing on the examples of the H-2 visa in the United States and the recruitment of foreign workers to Malaysia, this paper examines the c…
Navigating Migrant Trajectories through Private Actors
Recent research on the ‘migration industry’ has provided a means to interrogate how private actors come to be used as a means to facilitate, direct and control migration. Both through incorporating private actors into security functions and outsourcing certain functions to labour brokers, the use of migration industry actors is an important part of the ways in which the state works to maintain its sovereign control over territory and the ways peo…
A(nother) geography of fear
While scholarship around urban fear has brought forward important insights around the relationship between fear, mobility and social exclusion, questions relating to legal exclusion have largely been left outside the scope of inquiry. In cities around the world there are, however, a growing number of people who are not only de facto excluded from rights to/within the city (based on their gender, class, age etc.) – but de jure excluded based on th…
Factors motivating women's informal micro‐entrepreneurship
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors which motivate women's informal micro‐entrepreneurship in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach The qualitative analysis employed in this paper is based upon empirical findings from field work conducted in the state of Penang on the north‐western coast of Peninsular Malaysia. In total, 39 hawkers (petty traders) were interviewed using an interview guide which contained open‐ended questio…
Corrupt(ing) Borders
Critical border studies have shown that it is no longer very useful to think of borders as fixed demarcations at the edge of the nation state. Instead, such scholarship has illustrated how contemporary borders are enacted both beyond and within state territory—as well as how borders derive their meaning from the various bordering practices that determine who is (not) welcome on the ‘inside’. In this study the role of corruption in such bordering …
The ‘street politics’ of migrant il/legality
Immigration control constitutes a particular technique for regulating urban space and for controlling and disciplining migrant subjects within it. Unlike other manifestations of state power in exemplary urban settings, the architecture of urban immigration control is not recognisable through grand buildings or walls, but rather through its momentary presence and continuously shifting location: ad hoc identity controls in public spaces, roadblocks…
Im/Mobility and Deportability in Transit
Over the course of the so‐called ‘European refugee crisis’ hundreds and thousands of refugees have arrived to the Greek island of Lesvos. In order to obtain permission to leave the island, and thus continue their journeys towards northern Europe, arriving refugees first have to go through a registration process. During 2015, this registration resulted in refugees being given an ‘administrative deportation order,’ which de jure expelled the refuge…
Jocular Ethnography
This article makes the case for why the jocular is both methodologically and analytically important in ethnographic work on migration.More precisely, it argues that we need to pay explicit attention to the productive work that the humorous does in our ethnographic encounters -and analyse what it means for the types of knowledge that we (re)produce around migrants' experiences, subjectivities and struggles.Drawing on ethnographic work conducted in…
Factors motivating women's informal micro‐entrepreneurship
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors which motivate women's informal micro‐entrepreneurship in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach The qualitative analysis employed in this paper is based upon empirical findings from field work conducted in the state of Penang on the north‐western coast of Peninsular Malaysia. In total, 39 hawkers (petty traders) were interviewed using an interview guide which contained open‐ended questio…
A(nother) geography of fear
While scholarship around urban fear has brought forward important insights around the relationship between fear, mobility and social exclusion, questions relating to legal exclusion have largely been left outside the scope of inquiry. In cities around the world there are, however, a growing number of people who are not only de facto excluded from rights to/within the city (based on their gender, class, age etc.) – but de jure excluded based on th…
Im/Mobility and Deportability in Transit
Over the course of the so‐called ‘European refugee crisis’ hundreds and thousands of refugees have arrived to the Greek island of Lesvos. In order to obtain permission to leave the island, and thus continue their journeys towards northern Europe, arriving refugees first have to go through a registration process. During 2015, this registration resulted in refugees being given an ‘administrative deportation order,’ which de jure expelled the refuge…
The Lesvos Refugee Crisis as Disaster Capitalism
Navigating Migrant Trajectories through Private Actors
Recent research on the ‘migration industry’ has provided a means to interrogate how private actors come to be used as a means to facilitate, direct and control migration. Both through incorporating private actors into security functions and outsourcing certain functions to labour brokers, the use of migration industry actors is an important part of the ways in which the state works to maintain its sovereign control over territory and the ways peo…
The ‘street politics’ of migrant il/legality
Immigration control constitutes a particular technique for regulating urban space and for controlling and disciplining migrant subjects within it. Unlike other manifestations of state power in exemplary urban settings, the architecture of urban immigration control is not recognisable through grand buildings or walls, but rather through its momentary presence and continuously shifting location: ad hoc identity controls in public spaces, roadblocks…
Refugees as/at risk
It is well established in the literature that migration has become increasingly securitized. In this article, we examine the racialized and gendered grids of intelligibility that make securitizing moves possible in the migration context. Specifically, we argue that the securitization of migration during the so-called EU refugee crisis comes into being through intertwined and mutually dependent representations of racialized, masculinized threat an…
Corrupt(ing) Borders
Critical border studies have shown that it is no longer very useful to think of borders as fixed demarcations at the edge of the nation state. Instead, such scholarship has illustrated how contemporary borders are enacted both beyond and within state territory—as well as how borders derive their meaning from the various bordering practices that determine who is (not) welcome on the ‘inside’. In this study the role of corruption in such bordering …
The public and the private in guestworker schemes
While discussions of state involvement in migration generally focus on restriction, states are actively involved in the promotion of labour migration through guestworker programmes, among other examples. While these programmes are state-sponsored, they often rely heavily on private actors in order to function. Drawing on the examples of the H-2 visa in the United States and the recruitment of foreign workers to Malaysia, this paper examines the c…
Hacking migration control
What sort of political actors are international migrants? This article approaches this question by studying how migrants move between legality and illegality. We have struggled to understand the political content of this behaviour, because we have viewed it as either an attempt to gain the state’s acceptance as quasi-citizens or an attempt to autonomously subvert the state. However, migrants are more ambivalent political actors than either of the…
Jocular Ethnography
This article makes the case for why the jocular is both methodologically and analytically important in ethnographic work on migration.More precisely, it argues that we need to pay explicit attention to the productive work that the humorous does in our ethnographic encounters -and analyse what it means for the types of knowledge that we (re)produce around migrants' experiences, subjectivities and struggles.Drawing on ethnographic work conducted in…
Numbers, Ignorance and Swedish Migration Policy
Starting in 2015, Sweden embarked upon a series of policy changes designed to reduce the number of migrants arriving to Sweden. Even though the effect of these policies on migrant arrivals remained unclear and a number of societal actors warned of negative 'collateral' effects, Sweden pushed ahead with these policy reforms. Through investigating the official policy documents produced by the government and the formal public consultation (remiss) p…
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