"Dokymenty!" Overdocumentation and the Anti-Refugee Machine in Russia

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2964573
AutoresRano Turaeva (0000-0002-4657-3619, autor de correspondencia)
Año2025
Volumen8
Número1
Páginas138-152
Fecha de publicación2025-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMigration and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2574-1306 • E-ISSN: 2574-1314
EditorialBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/arms.2025.080110
OpenAlexW4414012104
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas10

This article examines policing and "overdocumentation" in the everyday life of migrants in Russia and within Russian post-Soviet migration regimes. Overdocumentation produces precarity for migrants, while allowing police and authorities who work within the Foucauldian apparatus to capitalize on migrant precarity. Foucauldian apparatus or machines as in Anti-Refugee Machine (ARM) in this special issue, encompasses a multitude of both state and non-state actors, diverse discourses and ideologies, methodologies and principles influenced by Soviet-style control regimes, as well as institutions, concepts, and ideas. The production of vulnerability and dehumanization through the policing of internal and international migrants, stateless people, non-citizens, and citizens without propiska (residence registration), transforms all of them into disposable labor that serves only the interests of employers and state officials. Focusing on the production and capitalization of precarity through overdocumentation and policing of migrants, this article argues that power is manifested in legal, institutional, discursive, and practical contexts, where uncertainty is perpetuated and leveraged. It illustrates a possible endpoint of the ARM, in which all legal status and protection ultimately dissolves into abjection

Political science · Refugee · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Political Conflict and Governance · Political Theology and Sovereignty