Chronicle of a Crisis Foretold: The Politics of Irregular Migration, Human Trafficking and People Smuggling in the UK

Geddes, Andrew

doi:10.1111/j.1467-856x.2005.00192.x

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“…Undocumented migrants face individual and structural constraints in the labour market, as well as a manifestation of territorial, organisational and conceptual borders that define the migrant as “other”. Geddes (2005: 324) defines territorial borders as “those sites at which the sovereign capacity to include or exclude from the state territory are exercised. Organisational borders are those of institutions such as the labour market, welfare state and citizenship.…”

Section: Settlement Outcomes and Transnational Connectionsmentioning

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A Fractured Transnational Diaspora: The Case of Zimbabweans in Britain

Pasura

2011

International Migration

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Millions of Zimbabweans living abroad have been described as an emerging diaspora. However, there has been little attempt to question their designation as a diaspora, or indeed, to engage with the more theoretically informed and conceptually rich literature on diaspora. The assumption in this categorisation relies heavily upon popular usage of the term diaspora among Zimbabweans themselves both abroad and in the homeland. However, instead of suppressing discussion by simply pronouncing them ''a diaspora'', it is important to examine whether or not they constitute a diaspora. Drawing on the concepts of diaspora and transnationalism and on the author's multi-sited ethnographic research in the United Kingdom (hereafter, ''Britain''), the article examines how the diaspora was dispersed, how it is constituted in the hostland and how it maintains connections with the homeland. What factors influenced people's decisions to migrate into the diaspora and how can these phases be classified? What types of migration patterns characterise Zimbabweans' migration to Britain? The study explores the origin, formation and articulation of the Zimbabwean diaspora in Britain, providing a conceptual and theoretical interpretation of the social formation vis-a`-vis other accounts of global diasporas. The findings of this study suggest that Zimbabweans abroad are a fractured transnational diaspora. The scattering of Zimbabweans evinces some of the features commonly ascribed to a diaspora such as involuntary and voluntary dispersion of the population from the homeland; settlement in foreign territories and uneasy relationship with the hostland; strong attachment and connection to the original homeland; and the maintenance of diverse diasporic identities. The study represents a contribution to our knowledge of the Zimbabwean diaspora in particular and to the field of diaspora and transnational studies in general.

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Section: Settlement Outcomes and Transnational Connectionsmentioning

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A Fractured Transnational Diaspora: The Case of Zimbabweans in Britain

Pasura

2011

International Migration

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“…As Geddes (2005) succinctly elaborates, states engage in border-drawing at different levels, since immigration policy is politically constructed. 'International migration is about borders, relationships between types of population mobility and their encounter with the territorial, organisation and conceptual borders of states' (Geddes 2005, 324).…”

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Understanding the diversity of EU migration policy in practice: the implementation of the Blue Card initiative

Černá

2013

Policy Studies

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High-skilled immigration (HSI) policies, and their harmonisation across member states, have been an important part of the EU's Lisbon strategy focusing on the knowledge-based economy, and the subsequent 'Europe 2020' which emphasises economic recovery. Intra-EU mobility of high-skilled workers is quite low, and member states have targeted high-skilled third-country nationals (TCNs), both through national policies and the EU's recent Blue Card scheme. However, the Blue Card Directive (adopted in 2009, transposed by June 2011), despite its scope for Unionised regulation, allows member states to decide how many high-skilled TCNs they want to admit, if any. The article argues that tensions between openness and closure to migration exist at both member state and EU level. These tensions are resolved through considerable diversity in the conditions and rights accorded to Blue Card holders across member states. Drawing on new empirical data, the article analyses first results of the transposition of the Blue Card Directive. It examines how far, in what form, and with what implications, diversity continues regarding the principle of mobility for these migrants across member states. The pattern and nature of transposition are hence important in shaping an EU-regulated liberal market in labour recruitment, and the development, or otherwise, of rights-based mobility regulation.

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“…5 This image of supposed ease is applied most commonly to the mobility of information, capital and commodities, whereas the discourse on corporeal mobility is decidedly more fraught. Transnational undocumented immigration is one of the most contested aspects of global mobility, often rendered as the dark side 6 or "underbelly" 7 of globalisation. In the context of migration a key question is that of access: how certain groups are denied access to mobility through dint of birthplace, ethnic profiling or geopolitical circumstance.…”

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Desperate Mobilities: Logistics, Security and the Extra-Logistical Knowledge of ‘Appropriation’

Martin

2012

Geopolitics

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This paper sets out to address the increasing strategic power of logistics management in the context of commodity and corporeal mobilities. In doing so it looks to the strategy of interconnectivity in order to address the management of legitimated mobilities. It is argued that the geopower of commodity mobility is premised on the infrastructural strength offered by logistics management, a form of spatial and temporal control that operates through increasingly territorialising means. However, given the infrastructural 'tension' that processes of standardisation have created, the paper also concerns the appropriation of commodity mobility networks for the purposes of illegitimated corporeal mobility. In part this is intended to develop the critiques of globalisation which challenged the image of transnational mobility networks as part of a borderless, boundless present typified most readily by the flows of information, capital and commodities. By contrast the 'desperate mobilities' of undocumented immigrants attests to the rather more tangled manifestations of mobility that many individuals have to traverse. In particular I focus on the fallibility of strategic sites within global commodity movement and the uses of 'extra-logistical knowledge'.

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Chronicle of a Crisis Foretold: The Politics of Irregular Migration, Human Trafficking and People Smuggling in the UK

Cited by 35 publications

References 30 publications

A Fractured Transnational Diaspora: The Case of Zimbabweans in Britain

A Fractured Transnational Diaspora: The Case of Zimbabweans in Britain

Understanding the diversity of EU migration policy in practice: the implementation of the Blue Card initiative

Desperate Mobilities: Logistics, Security and the Extra-Logistical Knowledge of ‘Appropriation’

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