What is a legitimate mobility manager? Juxtaposing migration brokers with the EU
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 3609930 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Lisa Åkesson (0000-0001-7708-3594, autor de correspondencia), M J Alpes (0000-0002-5369-4996), J Alpes |
| Año | 2019 |
| Volumen | 45 |
| Número | 14 |
| Páginas | 2689-2705 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2019-10-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | New Community (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451 |
| Editorial | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1369183x.2018.1528100 |
| OpenAlex | W2900392149 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 11 |
| Referencias citadas | 31 |
This article juxtaposes two types of actors who offer migration services: a state-managed EU programme in Cape Verde and two Cameroonian development NGOs run by businessmen. By framing both as managers of mobility, the article contributes to debates on migration management and the migration industry. The article takes the paradox between official narratives and migrant experiences as a starting point to ask why and how both types of mobility managers can mobilise legitimacy. Staying clear of normative evaluations of the respective legitimacy and success of market and state actors, the article shows that both types of migration managers are involved in producing ‘the legal migrant’ in different ways. On the basis of ethnographic material from Cameroon (2007-2014) and Cape Verde (2010-2012), the article discusses the functioning of the two kinds of mobility managers, their relations with aspiring migrants and respective modes of self-representation. In conclusion, the article shows that despite apparent differences between migration brokers and the EU, the article’s mobility managers share the use of ‘development’ as a trope for legitimising their activities
Cape verde · Ethnography · Framing (construction · Geography · Legitimacy · Narrative · Normative · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · State (computer science · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Human smuggling, gender and labour circulation in the Global South
The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling
Information Sharing and Decision-Making
Theorizing Legitimacy in Migration Research
Does Information Improve the Experience of Pursuing Labor Migration? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Pakistan
The Migrant Other
Informality during migration, “conversion” within and across national spaces
From Migrant Worker to Migrant Broker
The trade-offs of legal status
Rethinking transit zones
The making and unmaking of precarious, ideal subjects - migration brokerage in the Global South
Anthropology and Development
Maid to Order in Hong Kong
Mobility Makes States
Human Smuggling and Border Crossings
Illegality, Inc
Imagining a future in ‘bush’
Playing information games
The EU-Senegal mobility partnership
The Queue Outside the Embassy
Mobility at the Heart of a Nation
Migration as a Business
Migrants as agents of development
Africa's Return Migrants
Transnational activities and aspirations of irregular migrants in Belgium and the Netherlands
Labour migration brokerage and Dalit politics in Andhra Pradesh
Please, thank you and sorry - brokering migration and constructing identities for domestic work in Ghana
Migration in the age of involuntary immobility
The making and unmaking of precarious, ideal subjects - migration brokerage in the Global South
How the Box Became Black
Encountering Development
Seeing Like a State
Lateral vision
Migrant "Illegality" and Deportability in Everyday Life
Papers That Work
Longing for "Normal" Post-Fordism
Methodological nationalism and beyond
Coming and Going
| Obras citantes distintas | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citas por año | 1,57 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Velocidad de citación | recent |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 11 |