Institutional racism within the securitization of migration. The case of family reunification in Belgium

Orsini, Giacomo; Smit, Sarah; Farcy, Jean-Baptiste; Merla, Laura

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“…During this time, the immigration courts also closed, citing concern for public safety. This further limited asylum-seekers’ legal rights to services and protection (Farfán-Santos 2019 ; Orsini et al 2022 ), and led to prolonged liminal legality for the asylum-seekers who were waiting for legal protection from deportation, work permits, access to the formal economy, federal benefits, health insurance and affordable housing that was often only available to those who could prove formal employment and legal status. This was particularly arduous for Central American asylum-seeking women, as evidenced in recent U.S.-based research which has shown that racialized, marginalized mothers have been particularly negatively impacted by COVID-related economic and healthcare policy changes.…”

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COVID-19 and decreased asylum access: mother work, precarity and preocupación among Central American asylum-seekers in Los Angeles

Sigmund

2022

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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In 2020, the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the U.S. government’s increased legal restrictions on asylum-seekers acted together to increase social, economic and legal precarity in the lives of Central American asylum-seeking mothers in Los Angeles. In this context, these asylum-seeking mothers discussed their intersectional precarities through the idiom of distress “preocupación”, which signalled the concerns, worries, and fears they had in relation to the daily mother work of raising their children. Using ethnographic data collected during the COVID-19 pandemic, I examine how the intersectional precarities Central American asylum-seeking mothers faced necessitated protecting their children from their own preocupación. Through this, I argue that by using the analytic of preocupación it is possible to see exactly how racial and legal barriers to care increase precarity in the lives of asylum-seeking mothers in the U.S., and the detrimental impact that intersectional precarities have on asylum-seekers’ mother work today.

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COVID-19 and decreased asylum access: mother work, precarity and preocupación among Central American asylum-seekers in Los Angeles

Sigmund

2022

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Migration Policies in the OSCE Region

Abeytia,

Brito,

Ojo

2023

Polarization, Shifting Borders and Liquid Governance

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In this chapter, we postulate and argue that the differential responses to Ukrainian, Syrian and Afghan refugees exemplify the discrepancies in the application of international asylum law among OSCE countries, which are rooted in historical animosities. Through case studies, we trace institutional racial biases in immigration policies and the exportation of Global North bordering practices. Identifying the dissonance these differential responses present in both the political sphere and the public provision of social solutions, we critically assess policy needs and affirm the continued impacts of historic, colonial, and racial antecedents in migration policy. Finally, we explore localization as an approach community leaders and social actors may employ to create sites of civic resistance through whole-of-society collaborations and the development of micro-social policies.

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Introduction: Migration, Reproduction, and the Place of Families

Decimo

2024

Palgrave Studies in Mediating Kinship, Representation, and Difference

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Institutional racism within the securitization of migration. The case of family reunification in Belgium

Cited by 9 publications

References 47 publications

COVID-19 and decreased asylum access: mother work, precarity and preocupación among Central American asylum-seekers in Los Angeles

COVID-19 and decreased asylum access: mother work, precarity and preocupación among Central American asylum-seekers in Los Angeles

Migration Policies in the OSCE Region

Introduction: Migration, Reproduction, and the Place of Families

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