Everyday Bordering in the Nordic Countries

Tervonen, Miika; Pellander, Saara; Yuval‐Davis, Nira

doi:10.2478/njmr-2018-0019

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“…On the other hand, recognition of undocumented migrants' rights through ad hoc policies might lead to unwelcome visibility, intensifying mechanisms of repression (Tervonen et al 2018), or far-right violent reactions.…”

Section: Overview Of the Literaturementioning

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“…Prior to this study, no comprehensive research was conducted on undocumented migrants and their everyday lives in Finland. Very few researchers have addressed undocumented migrants, and usually only within a narrow scope (Keskimäki et al 2014;Kynsilehto and Puumala 2017;Könönen 2018aKönönen , 2018bKönönen , 2020Leppäkorpi 2011;Ollus et al 2013;Tervonen and Enache 2017;Tervonen et al 2018;Thomsen and Jørgensen 2012). Recognising such a research gap, scholars started to publish scientific articles about the topic (e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Jauhiainen

Tedeschi

2021

IMISCOE Research Series

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Undocumented Migrants and their Everyday Lives: The Case of Finland discusses the processes and practices through which migrants become undocumented; what their everyday lives consist of; which local, national, and international policies and practices affect them; and how they deal with them. In addition, the book reflects on how research on undocumented migrants can best be conducted using quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods, and reflects on research ethics and methodologies. The empirical focus of the book is Finland and, more broadly, the European Union (EU), but the themes connect to a broader geographical scope.The topic of irregular migration and undocumented migrants is becoming increasingly important in Europe. The book asks who these undocumented migrants are; what their everyday lives are like, what key issues concern them; and how the society regards them—particularly in Finland. Among the key themes addressed are the asylum processes and their failures; the housing, employment, and social networks of undocumented migrants; their migration journeys to, within, and beyond Finland; their healthcare; and their uses of the internet and social media. This introductory chapter outlines the book, describes the Finnish context, and reviews the literature concerning the emergence of the undocumented migrant phenomenon.

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Introduction

Jauhiainen

Tedeschi

2021

IMISCOE Research Series

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“…In Denmark and Sweden, the narrative of an inclusive and protective welfare state is key to the social and political identity of the state (Brochmann and Hagelund, 2012). However, the welfare state is, to an equal extent, premised on the exclusion or subordinate inclusion (De Genova, 2013) of non-members, whose (gendered, racialised and classed) difference becomes constituted as threats to the welfare state and society (Tervonen et al, 2018). Hence, the subordinate inclusion and infliction of structural violence onto unwanted others is one of the ways in which the welfare state (re)constructs itself and consolidates its borders (Aas, 2013;Barker, 2017).…”

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Minimum rights policies targeting people seeking protection in Denmark and Sweden

Lindberg¹

2020

Refugees and the Violence of Welfare Bureaucracies in Northern Europe

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“…Mendoza and Morén-Alegret note how the becoming of migrants is materialised through the senses, which are often overlooked: ‘Individuals look, listen, taste, smell and touch, and it is in so doing that they build their experience of the world’ (2013: 762), and Campos-Delgado (2019) highlights how emotions are fully part of the space-making and becoming of migrants. Space-making is made of ‘migrants’ coping strategies, experiences and struggles’ (Tervonen et al, 2018: 140) and everyday tactics (De Certeau, 1984) of survival, including in the Nordic countries (Bendixsen, 2018).…”

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On the ethical dimension of irregular migrants’ lives: Affect, becoming and information

Tedeschi

2020

Dialogues in Human Geography

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This article operationalises Simondon’s theory of becoming and Deleuze and Spinoza’s ethics and unfolds their conceptualisations in the lives of a group of irregular migrants in Finland. From an ontological and ontogenetic perspective, individuals and their environment are always in a non-complete, non-linear and ethically affective state of becoming. In this sense, migrant bodies register the positive and negative affections accumulated over time, and, via information, make them a material, yet unfinished, and ready to be challenged again, part of their becoming. Applying these concepts to ethnographic fieldwork, this article highlights three dimensions of the observed irregular migrants’ becoming: their relentless efforts of becoming themselves through hardships; non-linear tensions with disparate realities, such as the bureaucratic procedures, and the negative affections the latter entail; and the struggle towards positive affections in temporary stabilities (e.g. in community life). In focusing on the processual and ontological making of migrants in their environment, the article contributes to broader debates regarding the non-linear and ethical dimensions of their everyday lives, as well as their capacity of transforming themselves, and aims at opening up dialogues on the significance of an ontogenetic approach to the field of irregular migration and beyond.

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Everyday Bordering in the Nordic Countries

Cited by 46 publications

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