Anna Wy
Biographic Data
| ID | 115140 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Wy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Wy |
| SIGNATURE | WY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bern |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7533-0640 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 160 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Informed Non-Use: The Hazards of Mobilising Law in Precarious Housing Arrangements
This article explores why individuals in vulnerable positions may not mobilise available legal avenues to protect themselves from harm, despite being aware of their existence. Drawing on data relating to precarious housing situations in Berlin and Zurich, we argue that the assumption that mobilising the law would improve the situation of individuals is not always accurate. We present three dimensions of non-mobilisation that prevent individuals f…
Intersecting Precarities in Housing and Legal Status: No Residence Permit Without Permanent Residence
This article shows that different manifestations of precarity often interact and mutually reinforce each other. Drawing on a research project on precarious housing in two cities in Germany and Switzerland and focusing on migratised individuals, we show that people frequently encounter precarity not only in terms of housing but also in terms of legal status. We argue that narrowly concentrating on isolated areas of people's lives may overlook the …
Valued, problematised, ignored: Glimpses into entanglements of emplaced mobilities in a Maltese town
Places and mobilities: Studying Human Movements Using Place as an Entry Point
This interdisciplinary special issue brings mobility scholars and migration scholars together to examine how places and mobilities are entangled. It asks whether using place as an entry point for studying human movements can reveal new insights into our understanding and conceptualisation of mobility. In this introduction we demonstrate, based on the contributions gathered in this special issue, how using place as an entry point for studying mobi…
Navigating the European Migration Regime: Male Migrants, Interrupted Journeys and Precarious Lives
Navigating the European Migration Regime: An Ethnography of Unwanted Migrants
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC- ND Anna Wyss’ survey of the heavily politicised group of male migrants in Europe provides insightful analysis of both masculinity and the European migration crisis. The book tracks men’s repeated attempts to achieve permanent residence status and the successive detentions and deportations they endure. It measures the effects of precarity on their lives and explores the hope and vulnerability the…
Disentangling entangled mobilities: Reflections on forms of knowledge production within migration studies
European migration studies have been criticised for having certain epistemological and theoretical underpinnings that reproduce hegemonic structures, especially the ‘national order of things’ and colonial legacies. In this article, we propose the concept of ‘entangled mobilities’ to address some of these challenges. Entangled mobilities as a theoretical lens enables us to study specific global and transnational processes, the ways in which they a…
Working for Protection? Precarious Legal Inclusion of Afghan Nationals in Germany and Switzerland
This paper engages with the violent conditions deriving from neoliberal trends in European migration and asylum governance. We explore how continuous precarity, in conjunction with an integration imperative, affects the lives of recently arrived Afghan refugees in Germany and Switzerland. Drawing on critical engagements with the politics of integration and theories of violence, we argue that, in both European countries, Afghans are increasingly f…
Informing for the sake of it: Legal intricacies, acceleration and suspicion in the German and Swiss migration regimes
In migration law, being informed about legal and administrative procedures constitutes an essential procedural safeguard. Yet, in practice, the transparency of legal practices is often structurally undermined, resulting in the curtailment of procedural safeguards and potentially affecting perceptions of procedural justice. Building on our multi-sited ethnographic research in Germany and Switzerland, we first argue that migrants find it often diff…
States of Suspicion: How Institutionalised Disbelief Shapes Migration Control Regimes
This special section emerged out of discussions between a group of scholars researching border and migration control regimes in Europe. In our research, we had all identified suspicion as characteristic of migration governance. We saw it in the anxiety-ridden public discourses surrounding ‘unwanted’ immigration, in increasingly repressive legal frameworks, in bureaucratic classification schemes and technologies designed to identify suspected, ill…
Männlichkeit im Spannungsfeld
Dieser Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit den Auswirkungen ambivalenter Männlichkeitskonstruktionen auf die Lebensrealitäten und Handlungsstrategien von afghanischen Geflüchteten in Deutschland und der Schweiz. Wir zeigen, wie Argwohn, Ausgrenzungserfahrungen und rechtliche Prekarität in der Aufnahmegesellschaft in Kombination mit Verantwortungsgefühlen gegenüber Familienmitgliedern ein vergeschlechtlichtes Spannungsfeld für männliche Geflüchtete erzeu…
Migrants Before the Law: Contested Migration Control in Europe
This book traces the practices of migration control and its contestation in the European migration regime in times of intense politicization. The collaboratively written work brings together the perspectives of state agents, NGOs, migrants with precarious legal status, and their support networks, collected through multi-sited fieldwork in eight European states: Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden and Switzerland. The book …
Stuck in Mobility? Interrupted Journeys of Migrants With Precarious Legal Status in Europe
Due to lack of access to work and support services migrants with precarious legal status engage in onward mobility within EUrope and thus contest the migration regime that aims to control and limit their mobility. This article highlights the ambiguous nature of mobility from a critical mobilities perspective based on multi-sited ethnographic research and interviews with migrants in Austria, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland. By focusing on their in…
Illegalisation, Masculinity and Intimacy: The Impact of Public Images on Male Migrants with a Precarious Legal Status
The «Event Köln» (Dietze 2016) has shown how public images of migrant men as being potentially dangerous to women can be exploited for justifying more restrictive migration control. The reported sexual assaults of women by migrant men from North Africa in Cologne on New Year’s Eve 2015 were followed by a moral panic and political demands to expel «those who were believed to endanger post-feminist Germany» (Boulila et al. 2017: 286). This event fo…
Migrants Before the Law: Contested Migration Control in Europe
This book traces the street-level practices of migration control and its contestation in the European migration regime. The collaboratively written work brings together the perspectives of state agents, NGOs, and migrants with precarious legal status, collected through multi-sited fieldwork in eight European states: Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden and Switzerland. An ethnography of law in action, the book contributes t…
Contested control at the margins of the state
While the fact that the implementation of migration policies fails to perfectly manage migration is well known, the actual dynamics of policy implementation have received little attention to date. A serious engagement with this phenomenon requires a move beyond policy texts and political intentions, and towards a 'migration regime' perspective that pays attention to the inherent contradictions, conflicts of interest and competing logics within mi…
Contested control at the margins of the state
While the fact that the implementation of migration policies fails to perfectly manage migration is well known, the actual dynamics of policy implementation have received little attention to date. A serious engagement with this phenomenon requires a move beyond policy texts and political intentions, and towards a 'migration regime' perspective that pays attention to the inherent contradictions, conflicts of interest and competing logics within mi…
Stuck in Mobility? Interrupted Journeys of Migrants With Precarious Legal Status in Europe
Due to lack of access to work and support services migrants with precarious legal status engage in onward mobility within EUrope and thus contest the migration regime that aims to control and limit their mobility. This article highlights the ambiguous nature of mobility from a critical mobilities perspective based on multi-sited ethnographic research and interviews with migrants in Austria, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland. By focusing on their in…
Disentangling entangled mobilities: Reflections on forms of knowledge production within migration studies
European migration studies have been criticised for having certain epistemological and theoretical underpinnings that reproduce hegemonic structures, especially the ‘national order of things’ and colonial legacies. In this article, we propose the concept of ‘entangled mobilities’ to address some of these challenges. Entangled mobilities as a theoretical lens enables us to study specific global and transnational processes, the ways in which they a…
States of Suspicion: How Institutionalised Disbelief Shapes Migration Control Regimes
This special section emerged out of discussions between a group of scholars researching border and migration control regimes in Europe. In our research, we had all identified suspicion as characteristic of migration governance. We saw it in the anxiety-ridden public discourses surrounding ‘unwanted’ immigration, in increasingly repressive legal frameworks, in bureaucratic classification schemes and technologies designed to identify suspected, ill…
Working for Protection? Precarious Legal Inclusion of Afghan Nationals in Germany and Switzerland
This paper engages with the violent conditions deriving from neoliberal trends in European migration and asylum governance. We explore how continuous precarity, in conjunction with an integration imperative, affects the lives of recently arrived Afghan refugees in Germany and Switzerland. Drawing on critical engagements with the politics of integration and theories of violence, we argue that, in both European countries, Afghans are increasingly f…
Places and mobilities: Studying Human Movements Using Place as an Entry Point
This interdisciplinary special issue brings mobility scholars and migration scholars together to examine how places and mobilities are entangled. It asks whether using place as an entry point for studying human movements can reveal new insights into our understanding and conceptualisation of mobility. In this introduction we demonstrate, based on the contributions gathered in this special issue, how using place as an entry point for studying mobi…
Informing for the sake of it: Legal intricacies, acceleration and suspicion in the German and Swiss migration regimes
In migration law, being informed about legal and administrative procedures constitutes an essential procedural safeguard. Yet, in practice, the transparency of legal practices is often structurally undermined, resulting in the curtailment of procedural safeguards and potentially affecting perceptions of procedural justice. Building on our multi-sited ethnographic research in Germany and Switzerland, we first argue that migrants find it often diff…
Illegalisation, Masculinity and Intimacy: The Impact of Public Images on Male Migrants with a Precarious Legal Status
The «Event Köln» (Dietze 2016) has shown how public images of migrant men as being potentially dangerous to women can be exploited for justifying more restrictive migration control. The reported sexual assaults of women by migrant men from North Africa in Cologne on New Year’s Eve 2015 were followed by a moral panic and political demands to expel «those who were believed to endanger post-feminist Germany» (Boulila et al. 2017: 286). This event fo…
Migrants Before the Law: Contested Migration Control in Europe
This book traces the street-level practices of migration control and its contestation in the European migration regime. The collaboratively written work brings together the perspectives of state agents, NGOs, and migrants with precarious legal status, collected through multi-sited fieldwork in eight European states: Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden and Switzerland. An ethnography of law in action, the book contributes t…
Contested control at the margins of the state
While the fact that the implementation of migration policies fails to perfectly manage migration is well known, the actual dynamics of policy implementation have received little attention to date. A serious engagement with this phenomenon requires a move beyond policy texts and political intentions, and towards a 'migration regime' perspective that pays attention to the inherent contradictions, conflicts of interest and competing logics within mi…
Migrants Before the Law: Contested Migration Control in Europe
This book traces the practices of migration control and its contestation in the European migration regime in times of intense politicization. The collaboratively written work brings together the perspectives of state agents, NGOs, migrants with precarious legal status, and their support networks, collected through multi-sited fieldwork in eight European states: Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden and Switzerland. The book …
Stuck in Mobility? Interrupted Journeys of Migrants With Precarious Legal Status in Europe
Due to lack of access to work and support services migrants with precarious legal status engage in onward mobility within EUrope and thus contest the migration regime that aims to control and limit their mobility. This article highlights the ambiguous nature of mobility from a critical mobilities perspective based on multi-sited ethnographic research and interviews with migrants in Austria, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland. By focusing on their in…
Männlichkeit im Spannungsfeld
Dieser Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit den Auswirkungen ambivalenter Männlichkeitskonstruktionen auf die Lebensrealitäten und Handlungsstrategien von afghanischen Geflüchteten in Deutschland und der Schweiz. Wir zeigen, wie Argwohn, Ausgrenzungserfahrungen und rechtliche Prekarität in der Aufnahmegesellschaft in Kombination mit Verantwortungsgefühlen gegenüber Familienmitgliedern ein vergeschlechtlichtes Spannungsfeld für männliche Geflüchtete erzeu…
Navigating the European Migration Regime: Male Migrants, Interrupted Journeys and Precarious Lives
Navigating the European Migration Regime: An Ethnography of Unwanted Migrants
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC- ND Anna Wyss’ survey of the heavily politicised group of male migrants in Europe provides insightful analysis of both masculinity and the European migration crisis. The book tracks men’s repeated attempts to achieve permanent residence status and the successive detentions and deportations they endure. It measures the effects of precarity on their lives and explores the hope and vulnerability the…
Disentangling entangled mobilities: Reflections on forms of knowledge production within migration studies
European migration studies have been criticised for having certain epistemological and theoretical underpinnings that reproduce hegemonic structures, especially the ‘national order of things’ and colonial legacies. In this article, we propose the concept of ‘entangled mobilities’ to address some of these challenges. Entangled mobilities as a theoretical lens enables us to study specific global and transnational processes, the ways in which they a…
Working for Protection? Precarious Legal Inclusion of Afghan Nationals in Germany and Switzerland
This paper engages with the violent conditions deriving from neoliberal trends in European migration and asylum governance. We explore how continuous precarity, in conjunction with an integration imperative, affects the lives of recently arrived Afghan refugees in Germany and Switzerland. Drawing on critical engagements with the politics of integration and theories of violence, we argue that, in both European countries, Afghans are increasingly f…
Informing for the sake of it: Legal intricacies, acceleration and suspicion in the German and Swiss migration regimes
In migration law, being informed about legal and administrative procedures constitutes an essential procedural safeguard. Yet, in practice, the transparency of legal practices is often structurally undermined, resulting in the curtailment of procedural safeguards and potentially affecting perceptions of procedural justice. Building on our multi-sited ethnographic research in Germany and Switzerland, we first argue that migrants find it often diff…
States of Suspicion: How Institutionalised Disbelief Shapes Migration Control Regimes
This special section emerged out of discussions between a group of scholars researching border and migration control regimes in Europe. In our research, we had all identified suspicion as characteristic of migration governance. We saw it in the anxiety-ridden public discourses surrounding ‘unwanted’ immigration, in increasingly repressive legal frameworks, in bureaucratic classification schemes and technologies designed to identify suspected, ill…
Places and mobilities: Studying Human Movements Using Place as an Entry Point
This interdisciplinary special issue brings mobility scholars and migration scholars together to examine how places and mobilities are entangled. It asks whether using place as an entry point for studying human movements can reveal new insights into our understanding and conceptualisation of mobility. In this introduction we demonstrate, based on the contributions gathered in this special issue, how using place as an entry point for studying mobi…
Intersecting Precarities in Housing and Legal Status: No Residence Permit Without Permanent Residence
This article shows that different manifestations of precarity often interact and mutually reinforce each other. Drawing on a research project on precarious housing in two cities in Germany and Switzerland and focusing on migratised individuals, we show that people frequently encounter precarity not only in terms of housing but also in terms of legal status. We argue that narrowly concentrating on isolated areas of people's lives may overlook the …
Valued, problematised, ignored: Glimpses into entanglements of emplaced mobilities in a Maltese town
Informed Non-Use: The Hazards of Mobilising Law in Precarious Housing Arrangements
This article explores why individuals in vulnerable positions may not mobilise available legal avenues to protect themselves from harm, despite being aware of their existence. Drawing on data relating to precarious housing situations in Berlin and Zurich, we argue that the assumption that mobilising the law would improve the situation of individuals is not always accurate. We present three dimensions of non-mobilisation that prevent individuals f…
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (10 works) · Geography (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Economic geography (5 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)