Should (S)he Stay or Should (S)he Go? - Street-level Suspicion and the Construction of the '(Un)deserving Migrant
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3948091 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L M Borrelli (0000-0001-8547-320X, School of Social Work, HES-SO Valais-Wallis [University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland], Sierre, Switzerland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1093-1116 |
| Publication date | 2022-08-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geopolitics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14650045.2020.1814257 |
| OpenAlex | W3089133271 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
| References cited | 50 |
Street-level bureaucrats in the field of migration control express ideas of who should have the right to stay (or not), influenced by individual stereotypes, but also by organisational structures and established legal provisions. Tasked with screening for ‘bogus’ asylum seekers and deporting irregularised migrants, they are asked to categorise and sort these people according to certain guidelines and policies. It is argued that within migration enforcement, there are two interlinked and underlying rationales which allow for and facilitate such categorisations: suspicion and notions of (un)deservingness. The article presents ethnographic data collected in migration enforcement agencies in Sweden, Switzerland, Lithuania and Latvia in order to cross-examine both concepts. It captures how suspicion becomes a default mode of migration enforcement and allows exclusionary deservingness categories to be created, which again feed back into daily practices to detect suspicious individuals. This intertwined relationship can uphold and normalise a discriminating system despite discrepancies that come up in the creation of these categories
Business · Criminology · Enforcement · Ethnography · Law and economics · Law enforcement · Political science · Refugee · Seekers · Sociology · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Dismembered Attachment
Encounters of Despair
From political narrative to enforcement practice
Asylum, Borders, and the Politics of Violence
Revisiting coping mechanisms on the street-level
Constructions of Multiple Deservingness Frames towards Refugees in Everyday Work Life in İzmir
Overseas immigration liaison officers
La (re)définition des mobilités privilégiées par l’administration
The Ancestral Line is through the Father”
Political geography III
Targetability as Credibility
In search of legal stability
Suspicion of Truth
Tracing the circulation of emotions in Swiss migration enforcement
Refugees as perceived threat
Suspicion and surveillance
Between Suspicion and Benevolence
Navigating citizenship and motherhood in and beyond Berlin
Legal status and refugees' perceptions of institutional justice
Pretending to be Domestic Workers to be 'Legal'. Uneven Performances of Deservingness Within Italy's Labour Migration Regime
States of Suspicion
Suspicious Infrastructures
Epistemic domination by data extraction
Playing dirty
Devices of suspicion. An analysis of Frontex screening materials at the registration and identification center in Moria
Constructing categories of 'desirable migrants' through bureaucracy in French and Canadian mobility regimes
Nordic Exceptionalism? How Scandinavian Border and Coast Guards Rationalize Their Participation in Frontex Operations
Experiencing Deportation as Dirty Work? The Case of Dutch Escort Officers
Homeless or refugee? Civil Society Actors and the (un)making of internal borders in an Italian frontier town
Policing and Contemporary Governance
States Against Migrants
Pulled Over
Anthropology in the margins of the state
Administrative behavior
Glimpses into the Hearts of Whiteness
The Logic of Appropriateness
(Un)Conditional Welfare? Tensions Between Welfare Rights and Migration Control in Swiss Case Law
The Social Production of Indifference
Autonomy of Migration
Migrants Before the Law
Political Asylum Deceptions
The Continuing Shame of Europe
Coping During Public Service Delivery
(Cr)immigrant framing in border areas
Governing immigration through probation
Making the difference in social Europe
The Border Inside – Organizational Socialization of Street-level Bureaucrats in the European Migration Regime
The influence of red tape on bureaucratic behavior
The deserving and the undeserving? Refugees, asylum seekers and welfare in Britain
Policing Borders, Producing Boundaries. The Governmentality of Immigration in Dark Times
Special Issue Discourses of Displacement and Deservingness
Police, Race and Culture in the ‘new Ireland
Controlling Administrative Discretion Promotes Social Equity? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Reflections on Street‐Level Bureaucracy
Com/passionate Protests
Which Clients are Deserving of Help? A Theoretical Model and Experimental Test
Rule Following and Discretion at Government's Frontlines
State Agent or Citizen Agent
Mobility, racism and geopolitics
Europe's Shame
Becoming Less Illegal
Social Policies as a Tool of Migration Control
Deserving Shelter
A moral economy of suspicion
Economic Insecurity, Prejudicial Stereotypes, and Public Opinion on Immigration Policy
Dutch civic integration courses as neoliberal citizenship rituals
Thinking Beyond Humanitarian Borders
All quiet on the 'Eastern front'? Controlling transit migration in Latvia and Lithuania
Compassion and Repression
The Truth from the Body
Creeping Conditionality in the UK
Constructing truths in a culture of disbelief
Sympathy and suspicion
Representing the "European refugee crisis" in Germany and beyond
"The "migrant with poor prospects
| Unique citing works | 29 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |