Migrant Rights, Agency, and Vulnerability

Navigating Contradictions in the Eurasian Region

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11047787
AutoresCaress Schenk (0000-0001-5738-1906, Nazarbayev University, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume48
Fascículo4
Páginas637-643
Data de publicação2020-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoNationalities Papers (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/nps.2019.92
OpenAlexW3035380424
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas33

Migrants are often presented in simplified terms that focus on the threats they experience or pose to the host society. This produces an image of migrants who have no agency and are victims of their circumstances or who respond to their circumstances by turning to crime and illegality. In this special issue, we reframe migration by highlighting how migrants leverage the various vulnerabilities they encounter, turning them into agency and self-sufficiency. We explore different types of vulnerability and agency for migrants in the Eurasian region, which often originate from the same sources, including structural factors, state and governance practices, social networks, and gender roles. Through interactions with a variety of state and nonstate actors, migrants have the ability to make choices that reduce uncertainty and risk in their migration environment and on returning home. These choices coexist with vulnerability and a lack of formal rights but do not replace them, creating complex and contingent relationships between precarity and agency

Agency (philosophy · Business · Cognitive reframing · Computer security · Corporate governance · Development economics · Economics · Human rights · Leverage (statistics · Political economy · Political science · Precarity · Social science · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology