L’ effet de frontière dans les mobilisations collectives de migrants en situation administrative précaire

Deleixhe, Martin; Vertongen, Youri Lou

doi:10.3917/rai.064.0067

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“…The control of migration justifies differential treatments among citizens (…) nowadays that it is extremely harder to obtain a regular permit." For Aline, it is important to acknowledge the combination of territorial and administrative borders (Deleixhe and Vertongen 2018) and ethnic boundaries to understand both the treatment of marriage migration and its use by migrants. Beyond this, she adds, "Before 2011, most people compiled their application files alone.…”

Section: Binational Marriage Migration Replaced In the Frame Of Migration Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Negotiating Legitimacy: Binational Couples in the Face of Immigration Bureaucracy in Belgium and Italy

Odasso

2021

anthropologica

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Drawing from ethnographic research conducted with binational heterosexual couples negotiating their legitimacy in the face of immigration bureaucracy in Belgium and Italy, I explore the interplay between marriage migration governmentality and personal subjectivities. In a context of increased political scrutiny, I illustrate how binational couples wield their intimacy to become and stay legal; and how their experiences of the bureaucratic encounters impact on both partners’ agency, producing swinging emotions and improving their legal culture. In Belgium and Italy, marriage to a citizen remains a pathway towards securing residence for the migrant partner. Hence, in both countries these formalities, that I frame as a network of bordering practices, are increasingly – but differently – policed defining divergent marriage migration regimes but similar shared migratory careers for the couples. The potency of the legal-bureaucratic culture fashions the couples’ journey through immigration law and its street-level implementation. Nevertheless, beyond the opportunity structures and nationally anchored constraints, the analysis demonstrates that the partners’ agency similarly emerges from the migration management at large, their personal legal status and biographical resources, and interactions with intermediaries at the margin of immigration bureaucracy. Such agency – triggered by intimate intentions and expectations – is contingent and relational.

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Section: Binational Marriage Migration Replaced In the Frame Of Migration Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Negotiating Legitimacy: Binational Couples in the Face of Immigration Bureaucracy in Belgium and Italy

Odasso

2021

anthropologica

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“…. it goes a long way toward explaining the acute fragmentation amongst the groups of activist migrants" (Deleixhe and Vertongen 2016).…”

Section: Challenges To Organizing Precarious Status Migrantsmentioning

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Community Practice in a Context of Precarious Immigration Status

Hanley

Lenet

Gal

2019

Community Practice and Social Development in Social Work

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As the global movement of people reaches unprecedented levels, Western governments are increasingly obsessed with border enforcement and migration management. This has resulted in the creation of complex and ever-changing immigration systems, contributing to the proliferation of new and complicated categories of migration status. Increasing numbers of migrants are finding themselves with precarious forms of immigration status and/or no status at all.

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