Chapter Six. The Transformation Of Consular Affairs: The United States Experience

Hamilton, Donna B.

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“…As such, the proponents and opponents of consular outsourcing can be summarized with the following advantages and disadvantages of consular outsourcing (Combined by the author from various resources, Hamilton, 2011;Bigo, Carrera and Guild, 2016;ZeroPoint, 2010;Wesseling and Boniface, 2011;Kuriyan and Ray, 2009).…”

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Neoliberal Governmentality and Consular Outsourcing: An Analysis on Visa Processing Arrangements

Bilbil¹

2018

Marmara Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilimler Dergisi

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Since the 2000s, consular services have not been the only arena that fits into the government's responsibility. This paper examines how the state transfers visa services to private companies that manage millions of visa applications each year. A theoretical focus on "governmentality" was undertaken by examining the discourses that shape the meaning, processes, and power configuration of consular outsourcing. Employing a content analysis, this study examines how political rationalities of governments are reflected in their discourses in terms of global visa policies, as well as how these discourses are embodied in public documents as technical devices. Based on analysis of tender documents, service level agreements, and the service providers' disclaimer statements, this study examines the role of governments and service providers, their thought processes, mechanisms, practices, and processes in the operationalization of consular outsourcing. This paper reveals three main outcomes. First, the change of political rationalities in visa policies pointed to a change in discourse (from visa restriction to visa liberalization), yet the visa processes have not liberalized or facilitated, and this discourse change only resulted in the inclusion of new actors, practices, and processes. Second, consular outsourcing created gaps in/between responsibility and accountability of governments and service providers to individuals. Third, these gaps entail depoliticization, individualization, and insecuritization in a neoliberal form and create concerns regarding responsibility and accountability. In light of this content analysis provided with this paper, a new area of politics that emerges with neoliberal governmentalism detaches individuals from the legal-political sphere and produces enterprise individuals who will become responsible for any risks associated with visa applications. This process signifies a policy that constructs the political rationalities of the state and individual based on the market principles. As such, depoliticization as a strategy of neoliberal governmentality becomes the central device of individual political rationality that is established visa processing arrangements.

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Neoliberal Governmentality and Consular Outsourcing: An Analysis on Visa Processing Arrangements

Bilbil¹

2018

Marmara Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilimler Dergisi

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“…Political, social and economic opposition was evident throughout the negotiating process. One of the most important challenges was in gaining acceptance by the different jurisdictions for the holistic approach of this market-based policy instrument targeting CO2 emissions (Klinsky 2013, Hamilton 2011, Kahn 2011, Mercure 2011, C2ES 2013. Although the provinces of British Columbia, Ontario, and Manitoba maintained their interest in the initiative, in the face of opposition from powerful business concerns and dissenting views across political parties, they decided in 2011 to postpone implementation of the cap-and-trade system (Vaillancourt 2011, Hamilton 2012.…”

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The Implementation of the Western Climate Initiative: How North American States and Provinces Lead International Climate Negotiations

Chaloux

2017

Int Negot

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The Western Climate Initiative is internationally recognized as a success story in global climate negotiations. However, between the first expression of the idea of a cap-and-trade system in 2007 and the launch of carbon trading in 2013, the number of participating Canadian provinces and us states fell from 11 to 2, and important hurdles risked derailing the project completely. The trajectory of this innovative cross-boundary policy holds important lessons for the prospects and pitfalls of green paradiplomacy in North America. This paper examines the impetus for subnational efforts to combat climate change in the face of federal inaction, and, through detailed examination of the wci, looks at jurisdictional, administrative, legal, political, social and economic factors that complicate the implementation of these initiatives. The analysis enables a better understanding of prospects for the establishment of norms, rules and institutions among North American federated states that can provide durable environmental regimes.

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The Multiple Airs: Pollution, Competing Digital Information Flows and Mobile App Design in China

Tarantino

2020

The Local and the Digital in Environmental Communication

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Chapter Six. The Transformation Of Consular Affairs: The United States Experience

Cited by 4 publications

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Neoliberal Governmentality and Consular Outsourcing: An Analysis on Visa Processing Arrangements

Neoliberal Governmentality and Consular Outsourcing: An Analysis on Visa Processing Arrangements

The Implementation of the Western Climate Initiative: How North American States and Provinces Lead International Climate Negotiations

The Multiple Airs: Pollution, Competing Digital Information Flows and Mobile App Design in China

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