The State versus the Alien

Immigration Control and Strategies of Irregular Immigrants

Bibliographic Data

ID6405635
AuthorsGodfried Engbersen (0000-0003-4635-1247), Dennis Broeders (0000-0003-3307-3807)
Year2009
Volume32
Issue5
Pages867-885
Publication date2009-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueWest European Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0140-2382 • E-ISSN: 1743-9655
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01402380903064713
OpenAlexW2022381805
LanguageEN
Citations received48
References cited43

In the past decade the Dutch state and the European Union have initiated a number of measures to make the strategies of irregular immigrants more visible in order to exclude, apprehend and expel them more effectively. These measures have limited the scope of irregular immigrants to manoeuvre in the legitimate institutions of society. As a consequence irregular migrants are pushed towards the fringes of legality and beyond. This article discusses three shifts in the residence strategies of irregular immigrants: (1) from formal to informal work, (2) from legitimate to criminal behaviour, and (3) from being identifiable to being unidentifiable. In reaction to these strategies, the state is countering again with new measures, especially with instruments to identify immigrants who do not reveal their true identity. There is a constant struggle in the field of migration, in which individual and collective actors involved respond to each other with different strategies

Alien · Citizenship · Demographic economics · Development economics · Economics · European union · Identity (music · Immigration · International trade · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Principle of legality · Residence · Scope (computer science · Sociology · State (computer science · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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