An Ethnographic Study of the Policing of Internal Borders in the Netherlands

(Cr)immigrant framing in border areas: decision-making processes of Dutch border police officers

“…Meanwhile a wealth of studies has addressed decision-making processes of regular police officers, and the issue of ethno-racial profiling in stop-and-search contexts in particular (Holmberg 2000, Waddington et al 2004, Wilson et al 2004, Alpert et al 2005, Dunham 2005, Schafer et al 2006, Stroshine et al 2008, Parmar 2011, Quinton 2011, Fallik and Novak 2012, Tillyer 2012, Mutsaers 2014. Whereas this body of research has provided valuable insights in the way regular police officers exercise their discretion in crime control, border policing officers have a fundamentally different task -as their main focus is migration control -and they are often equipped with powers in both crime control and migration control (Sklansky 2012).…”

The arterial border: negotiating economies of risk and violence in Mexico's security regime

“…For example, in light of significant geopolitical changes after the 1985 Schengen Area Agreement, social scientists working in Europe re-examined "the spatial reconfiguration of immigration control beyond a neat inside/outside cartography" [Coleman, (2012), p.420]. Attention turned to the ways Europe's borders moved into the spaces of everyday life where immigrant groups become subject to increasing surveillance, policing and ethno-racial profiling (Fassin, 2011;Mutsaers, 2014). Yet Europe's border regime has also moved beyond European soil.…”

Fishing for Precarious Status Migrants: Surveillant Assemblages of Migrant Illegalization in Toronto, Canada

“…27 Discussing the context in the Netherlands, and drawing on the work of O'Neill and Loftus, 28 Mutsaers also alludes to the working of multiple and interrelated factors. 29 He states: 234 On both sides of the Atlantic migrants are deliberately being targeted for control by a growing number of government agencies, semi-public bodies and private companies operating together to counteract the presence of migrants. 30 I further this work by using the framework of assemblages to analyse the surveillance of precarious status migrants for the purpose of tracking migrants as well as deporting those considered`illegal'.…”