Managing International Migration: Rethinking Transaction Costs, Red Tape, and Their Impact

Visvizi, Anna; Pachocka, Marta; Lytras, Miltiadis D.

doi:10.1111/imig.12648

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“…Accordingly, migration scholarship has increasingly focused on the legal and territorial mechanisms used by wealthy states to exclude asylum seekers from the global south, or policies and practices of exclusion and expulsion (Mountz 2011;Hyndman and Giles 2011;Schewel 2019). Global migration governance is limited by the confines of Westphalian state sovereignty that enables nation states to abdicate their moral and legal responsibility for asylum seekers and internally displaced nationals (Chand and Markowski 2019;Krakhmalova 2019;Visvizi et al 2019). For the past several decades, the European Union and Australia have implemented policies of interdiction, offshoring, return protocols, and readmission agreements that use various 'spatial fixes' to fundamentally undermine the obligations of international refugee law and the basic human rights it entails (Maillet et al 2018).Through its use of readmission agreements (transit country 'partnerships'), the E.U.…”

Section: Spaces Of Exclusion and Expulsion In The Global Asylum Systemmentioning

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Im/Mobility at the US–Mexico Border during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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In March 2020, the United States government began a series of measures designed to dramatically restrict immigration as part of its response to the global health crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. This included Title 42, which deported asylum seekers immediately and prevented them from applying for asylum. These measures worsened an already precarious situation at the US–Mexico border for an estimated 60,000 asylum seekers who were prevented, by the Trump administration’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ (aka MPP) policy enacted in January 2019, from remaining in the United States while they awaited their asylum hearings. In-depth interviews, participant observation, and social media analysis with humanitarian and legal advocates for asylum seekers living in a camp at the border in Matamoros, Mexico reveal that COVID-19’s impacts are not limited to public health concerns. Rather, COVID-19’s impacts center on how the Trump administration weaponized the virus to indefinitely suspend the asylum system. We argue that the Matamoros refugee camp provides a strategic vantage point to understand the repercussions of state policies of exclusion on im/mobility and survival strategies for asylum seekers. Specifically, we use the analytical lenses of the politics of im/mobility, geographies of exclusion, and asylum seeker resilience to identify how COVID-19 has shaped the im/mobility and security of the camp and its residents in unexpected ways. At the same time, our research illustrates that camp residents exercise im/mobility as a form of political visibility to contest and ameliorate their precarity as they find themselves in conditions not of their choosing.

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Section: Spaces Of Exclusion and Expulsion In The Global Asylum Systemmentioning

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“…Several issues and topics require greater attention of the research community, if modern age migration is to be understood comprehensively (Visvizi et al , 2019). These issues include, among others: the question of individual migrant/refugee agency, especially as when confronted with the rather generic terms of “migration” and “migration flows;” the agency–structure relationship, especially as it unfolds in the act of migration per se ; and the agency-structure relation as it unfolds in the process of managing migration.…”

Section: Special Issue On Migration In Modern Age: Agency Ict and The Digitalization Of Policy Responsesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Special issue on Migration in modern age: agency, ICT, and the digitalization of policy responsesMigration has re-emerged as one of the most important topics in contemporary political and academic debates. There is a growing recognition that active involvement of all stakeholders is needed if migration-inflicted short-and long-term implications are to be effectively addressed. Interestingly, the advent of sophisticated information and communication technology (ICT) creates several opportunities to deal with those implications in a more systematic, more targeted and, indeed, a more efficient manner than ever before. The objective of this special issue is to encourage interdisciplinary research and debate on the multifaceted intersection of migration and ICT as it unfolds at macro-, mezzo-and microlevels. Against this backdrop, the special issue had also sought to reflect on how these issues and processes fuel the process of transforming policy rendering its digital aspects more pronounced than ever.

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“…All of these social phenomena, as Carrasco mentions [12], produce territorial heterogeneity and different cultural expressions that make it difficult to have a system of measurement and analysis that fully encompasses cultural identity. In this sense, Visvizi et al [16,17] propose the use of technological tools to address the challenge of refugee and migrant crises and mention that the implementation of migration policies also implies moral obligations.…”

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Cultural Identity Distance Computation through Artificial Intelligence as an Analysis Tool of the Amazon Indigenous People. A Case Study in the Waorani Community

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Cultural identity is a complex concept that includes subjective factors such as ideology, family knowledge, customs, language, and acquired skills, among others. Measuring culture involves a significant level of difficulty, since its study and scope differ from the point of view, the time and the place where the studies are carried out. In the Amazon, indigenous communities are in an accelerated process of acculturation that results in a loss of cultural identity that is not easy to quantify. This paper presents a method to measure the cultural distance between individuals or between groups of people using Artificial Intelligence techniques. The distance between individuals is calculated as the distance of the minimum path in the self-organizing map using Dijkstra’s algorithm. The experiments have been carried out to measure the cultural identity of indigenous people in the Waorani Amazon community and compares them with people living in cities who have a modern identity. The results showed that the communities are still distant in terms of identity from the westernised cities around them, although there are already factors where the distances are minimal concerning these cities. In any case, the method makes it possible to quantify the state of acculturation. This quantification can help the authorities to monitor these communities and take political decisions that will enable them to preserve their cultural identity.

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Managing International Migration: Rethinking Transaction Costs, Red Tape, and Their Impact

Cited by 13 publications

References 34 publications

Im/Mobility at the US–Mexico Border during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Im/Mobility at the US–Mexico Border during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Cultural Identity Distance Computation through Artificial Intelligence as an Analysis Tool of the Amazon Indigenous People. A Case Study in the Waorani Community

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