Fraudulent Asylum Seeking as Transnational Mobilization

Terretta, Meredith

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“…As such, the notion of débrouillardise has important links with broader discussions on informality and mobility in urban studies (Simone 2001), and it appears in migration studies occasionally (e.g. Bakewell and Jónsson 2011;Terreta 2015).…”

Section: Migration Industry and Migrant Trajectories: Im/mobility Andmentioning

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Navigating the migration industry: migrants moving through an African-European web of facilitation/control

Schapendonk

2017

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

106

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This paper approaches the African-European migration industry as a complex web of relations in which different actors liaise, objectives oppose each other, and roles overlap. Starting from this notion, the question emerges: How do migrants navigate this fuzzy web of migration facilitation/control? To answer this question, this paper uses a 'trajectory ethnography' that follows the im/mobility processes of migrants from Westand Central Africa to, and inside, Europe. In so doing, it particularly focuses on two practices that are related to the concept of social navigation. First, it concerns débrouillardise, a term that points to the power of improvisation, creativity and hustling. Second, it regards social negotiation, a term referring to the process of how migrants 'massage' their relations with important actors in the field. The findings stress the relational dimension of the migration industry in the sense that the functioning of one actor depends so much on the intentions and efforts of others. I conclude that we could enhance our knowledge on migration industries with studies that constantly shift between the perspective of the migrant, the social network, the facilitator and controller. Such a dynamic approach unpacks further the multiple efforts that produce migrant im/mobility.

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Section: Migration Industry and Migrant Trajectories: Im/mobility Andmentioning

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Navigating the migration industry: migrants moving through an African-European web of facilitation/control

Schapendonk

2017

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

106

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“…Indeed, James Dominic Smith observes that cancer is now "a major challenge for humanitarian health providers" and for those supporting asylum seekers (Smith 2014:e363). Sporting prowess frames another subset of such cases; the ordeals of the Cameroonian Olympians who "overstayed" in London (Terretta 2015) echo elements of Thoronka's story.…”

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“…But whereas he was surely not the only Sierra Leonean athlete affected by Ebola, he was the only "defector" (see Terretta 2015) alleging fear and trauma. In at least four respects, his case is instructive about the broader contemporary asylum-claiming landscape specifically and about South-North migration generally.…”

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Ebola’s Would-be Refugees: Performing Fear and Navigating Asylum During a Public Health Emergency

Lawrance

2018

Medical Anthropology

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Chronic and acute illnesses sit uncomfortably with asylum claiming and refugee mobilities. The story of a Sierra Leonean, an athlete who feared Ebola and sought refuge in the UK, provides an opening to examine protection discourses that invoke fear, trauma, and crisis metaphors, to understand how asylum claims are performed, and how related petitions are adjudicated during public health emergencies of international concern. Ebola is revealed as a novel claim strategy, and thus a useful subject matter to investigate the shifting modalities of migrant agency, the unstable fabric of medical humanitarianism, and knowledge production in moments of exceptionality.

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“…The presumption that one category clearly merits asylum whereas the other does not has increasingly been recognized as problematic . Judging from their policies, however, host countries often arguably appear more concerned by the threat to their borders that has been posed by the presumed contamination of the asylum category than they are by the possibility of deserving migrants being denied protection (Feller 2011;Terretta 2015;Van Hear 2011a, 2011b.…”

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“…NOTES 3. Meredith Terretta (2015) describes asylum lawyers and aid workers who share such concerns regarding those who are presumed to be faking their narratives.…”

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Technologies of Suspicion and the Ethics of Obligation in Political Asylum

Haas¹,

Shuman²

2019

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Fraudulent Asylum Seeking as Transnational Mobilization

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Navigating the migration industry: migrants moving through an African-European web of facilitation/control

Navigating the migration industry: migrants moving through an African-European web of facilitation/control

Ebola’s Would-be Refugees: Performing Fear and Navigating Asylum During a Public Health Emergency

Technologies of Suspicion and the Ethics of Obligation in Political Asylum

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