A Practice Approach to Border Control in Morocco
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12693125 |
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| Authors | Çağla Lüleci-Sula (0000-0002-0534-8271, Bilkent University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 727-729 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-06 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-2486 • E-ISSN: 1521-9488 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/isr/viaa031 |
| OpenAlex | W3033281190 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
The construction of modern states, the appearance of borders, and the emergence of bureaucracies are interrelated, making one another possible. States not only hold a monopoly on the use of violence within their borders, but also determine who may cross these borders (Chapter 1). Visa policy is therefore a significant bureaucratic tool of state for (re)making sovereign borders. Thus, outsourcing in such a domain is puzzling. “Given that border control is emblematic of state sovereignty” (x), why do some states transfer this control to private actors and abandon their monopoly? How does this outsourcing work in practice? And how does outsourcing affect different groups and policy issues? Infantino answers these questions via a “street level implementation perspective,” which she describes in the first chapter of the book as she analyzes the day-to-day endeavors of policy implementers/practitioners in order to decode how border outsourcing operates (3–7). Scholars often analyze policymaking at the level of policy design, as if it is completely independent from what practitioners do. Policymakers are not the only ones that make policy, however; the daily work of practitioners on the “street-level” influence and even shape policy outcomes as well. Infantino therefore offers “a street-level implementation perspective on private-public cooperation that advances our understanding of the ongoing transformations of border/migration control and more broadly of the state” (72). This perspective draws on practice theory (Bourdieu 1977) and the recent practice turn in the study of world politics (Adler and Pouliot 2011), which takes practices as a fundamental source of political happenings. It is also widely adopted by contemporary border security research (see Bigo 2014; Isleyen 2018)
Bureaucracy · Economics · Law and economics · Market economy · Monopoly · Outsourcing · Perspective (graphical · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public policy · Public relations · Sociology · Sovereign state · Sovereignty · State (computer science · China's Global Influence and Migration · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Law · Public Administration
| Highly cited | No |
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