Europe and the Contested Politics of Migration: Between Logistification and Global Justice

Grappi, Giorgio

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3557952

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“…In addition, one of the main features of the process of logistification that is especially interesting for the purposes of this analysis is its ‘ethical minimalism’ ( Grappi, 2020 ), which allows to normalise the treatment of migration and asylum ‘as technical issues rather than social and political challenges, [. .…”

Section: The Logistical Approach In Migration Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The ‘Long Spring’ of migration management: Labour supply in the pandemic-induced EU border regime

Vergnano

2023

Politics

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Pandemic-induced border lockdowns in the spring of 2020 severely disrupted the migrant-labour supply in Western EU economies. This disruption of the EU border regime took place for different, even opposite reasons than the so-called ‘crisis’ of 2015, which is also known as the ‘long summer’ of migration. Indeed, where the latter originated from migrants’ massive appropriation of mobility, the disruption of 2020 resulted from state-imposed restrictions on mobility. However, by comparatively analysing two models of work organisation in the agro-industrial sector, characterised by a strong reliance on mobile labour and thus particularly affected by the border lockdowns of 2020 (harvest of crops in Italy and meat processing in the Netherlands), I argue that states’ response to the disruption of border regime in 2020 relied on a pre-existing logistical approach in migration management, adopted in the aftermath of 2015. More specifically, during the pandemic the ethical minimalism intrinsic in the logistical approach allowed a decoupling of migrant workers’ right to mobility, on one hand, and social and economic rights, on the other, thus resulting in increased discipline in the workplace, exposure to infections, exploitation, and dependency on the employer, to which migrant workers opposed more or less visible forms of resistance.

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Section: The Logistical Approach In Migration Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“….] [thus] limiting the reach of global justice as a political concept’ ( Grappi, 2020 : 1). Violence, which is intrinsic in the logistical management of migration, is often the result of such ethical minimalism.…”

Section: The Logistical Approach In Migration Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The ‘Long Spring’ of migration management: Labour supply in the pandemic-induced EU border regime

Vergnano

2023

Politics

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“…Geographers studying migration management in the EU are alive to these developments (Papada, Papoutsi, Painter, & Vradis, 2020;Tazzioli, 2018). Scholars have noted the widespread use of logistical terminology such as 'hubs', 'platforms' and 'corridors' which simultaneously dehumanise and depoliticise migration management (Grappi, 2020). Innovations, such as hotspots under EU legislation, have been conceived as logistical devices which locate, sort and detain those who arrive at the EU border in accordance with these logics (Pollozek & Passoth, 2019).…”

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Rethinking commonality in refugee status determination in Europe: Legal geographies of asylum appeals

Gill

Hoellerer²,

Allsopp³

et al. 2022

Political Geography

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“…Given this trajectory, it should be no surprise if logistics has spilled out from the field of business studies in which it mainly developed and has become a key issue in critical thought as well (Cowen, 2014;Mezzadra and Neilson, 2013;Neilson, 2012;Tsing, 2009). Critical research on borders and migration has also placed heightened attention to logistics (Altenried et al, 2018;Bojad zijev and Mezzadra, 2018;Grappi, 2020;Mezzadra, 2016Mezzadra, , 2017Mezzadra, , 2019Pollozek and Passoth, 2019;Tazzioli and Garelli, 2020). Scholars in this field have increasingly highlighted the central role played by logistical concerns and infrastructures in the practices of migration and in the attempts to govern them.…”

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“…In yet another eerie analogy with carceral spaces, a similar process has been described in relation to the rise of prison privatisation in the United States (Selman and Leighton, 2010), and the resulting transformations of prisoners into commodities generating ‘per diem payments for their private keepers’ (Hallett, 2002: 371). Hence, while studies exploring the ‘logistification’ of migration regimes have hitherto placed their emphasis on the centrality of the imperatives of just-in-time and to-the-point migration as mechanisms through which migrant labour is made profitable (Altenried et al., 2018: 304; Grappi, 2020: 19), a logistical approach to reception highlights another form of migrant exploitation. The ‘logistification’ of reception shows that asylum seekers are not only exploitable as labour power, but their mere presence and reproduction can bring significant benefits for some.…”

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Warehousing asylum seekers: The logistification of reception

Vianelli

2021

Environ Plan D

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This article employs the analytical perspective of logistics to explore a key, yet quite overlooked, aspect of the functioning of the EU border regime: the reception and associated territorial distribution of newly arrived asylum seekers. Drawing on qualitative data collected at the height of ‘refugee reception crisis’ in multiple contexts in Italy and Sweden, the article shows how reception is undergoing a process of ‘logistification’ . In this process, organisational and logistical concerns prevail over the care for those who are assisted, and reception is turned into a logistical matter of moving and accommodating asylum seekers. Crucial to this process of ‘logistification’ is the warehousing of asylum seekers – an art of government that seeks to objectify asylum seekers through their depersonalisation, victimisation and (im)mobilisation. The article argues that the ‘logistification’ of reception not only has dehumanising effects on asylum seekers, but also exposes the attempt to make profit out their management and transfer. This creates the conditions for the development of a reception industry in which the very presence of asylum seekers is valorised for the profit of a whole range of actors who ensure the reproduction, transfer, knowledge and control of those hosted in reception facilities.

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Europe and the Contested Politics of Migration: Between Logistification and Global Justice

Cited by 6 publications

References 27 publications

The ‘Long Spring’ of migration management: Labour supply in the pandemic-induced EU border regime

The ‘Long Spring’ of migration management: Labour supply in the pandemic-induced EU border regime

Rethinking commonality in refugee status determination in Europe: Legal geographies of asylum appeals

Warehousing asylum seekers: The logistification of reception

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