Constructing 'unteachability' through menacing warnings

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6015367
AutoresLuca Pfirter (0000-0002-8505-503X, University of Neuchâtel, autor de correspondencia)
Año2019
Volumen3
Número2
Páginas29-49
Fecha de publicación2019-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Legal Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1758-9584 • E-ISSN: 1758-9576
EditorialBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/jla.2019.030203
OpenAlexW3011359617
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12

This article scrutinises case files concerning the revocation of stay permits in Switzerland due to the receipt of social assistance. Through in-depth exploration of case files and Federal Supreme Court judgements, it provides insights into the increasing coupling of migration control and welfare instruments. The article does so by investigating one specific type of paperwork: ‘menaces of warnings of the revocation order due to the dependency on social assistance’. The article argues bureaucratic practices and the paperwork they produce must be investigated for their effects on foreign nationals and for the (re)production of politics of belonging and the ‘anti-citizen’. By individualising the reason for receiving social assistance, the analysed paperwork simultaneously aims at disciplining recipients of social assistance and legitimises exclusion by constructing ‘unteachability’ through ‘unsuccessful’ self-disciplining

Bureaucracy · Business · Criminology · Political science · Politics · Receipt · Refugee · Revocation · Social Assistance · Social control · Sociology · Supreme court · Engineering · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Social Policy and Reform Studies