Laura Victoria Rakotomalala
Biographic Data
| ID | 4439840 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Victoria Rakotomalala |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura Victoria |
| FAMILY NAME | Rakotomalala |
| SIGNATURE | RAKOTOMALALA L V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Libre de Bruxelles |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-4888-1961 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Beyond migration criminalisation
Socio-legal scholarship has shown that criminalisation produces stigmatised identities for undocumented migrants. Against the backdrop of increasingly restrictive migration control in Belgium, this article examines how undocumented domestic workers resist the stigma generated by migrant criminalisation through making sense of life circumstances from Christian moral frameworks rather than from immigration law. Drawing on long-term ethnographic res…
Caring or Complaining? Emotional Management and Performative Legal Consciousness Among Undocumented Domestic Workers in Belgium
This article draws on the concepts of legal consciousness and emotional management to examine how trade union affiliated undocumented domestic workers in Brussels interpret and respond to workplace abuse. It introduces the concept of ‘performative legal consciousness’ to highlight how workers’ perception of law as an acceptable remedy is informed by the desire to maintain a sense of belonging in their network and a positive worker identity, which…
Hegemony as promises
Asylum seekers arriving in Belgium are confronted with increasing legal restrictions and criminalizing discourse. As a result, many individuals must rethink their migration projects. How do asylum seekers rationalize intrusive regulations and maintain faith in the legitimacy of the law despite experiencing setbacks? Drawing on qualitative data from interviews with 17 asylum seekers in Belgium and participant observation in a reception centre, thi…
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Caring or Complaining? Emotional Management and Performative Legal Consciousness Among Undocumented Domestic Workers in Belgium
This article draws on the concepts of legal consciousness and emotional management to examine how trade union affiliated undocumented domestic workers in Brussels interpret and respond to workplace abuse. It introduces the concept of ‘performative legal consciousness’ to highlight how workers’ perception of law as an acceptable remedy is informed by the desire to maintain a sense of belonging in their network and a positive worker identity, which…
Hegemony as promises
Asylum seekers arriving in Belgium are confronted with increasing legal restrictions and criminalizing discourse. As a result, many individuals must rethink their migration projects. How do asylum seekers rationalize intrusive regulations and maintain faith in the legitimacy of the law despite experiencing setbacks? Drawing on qualitative data from interviews with 17 asylum seekers in Belgium and participant observation in a reception centre, thi…
Beyond migration criminalisation
Socio-legal scholarship has shown that criminalisation produces stigmatised identities for undocumented migrants. Against the backdrop of increasingly restrictive migration control in Belgium, this article examines how undocumented domestic workers resist the stigma generated by migrant criminalisation through making sense of life circumstances from Christian moral frameworks rather than from immigration law. Drawing on long-term ethnographic res…
Legal consciousness (3 works) · Consciousness (2 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (2 works) · Action (physics (1 work) · Care work (1 work) · Coping (psychology (1 work) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (1 work) · Criminology (1 work) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (1 work) · Emotional Labor in Professions (1 work)