Migration routes and strategies of young undocumented migrants in England: a qualitative perspective

Bloch, Alice; Sigona, Nando; Zetter, Roger

doi:10.1080/01419870.2011.560276

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“…Irregularity itself, as many critical migration scholars have argued, should primarily be seen as deliberately produced by certain state authorities and laws, rather than being the consequence of individual migrants' actions in neglect or violation of immigration restrictions (De Genova, 2002;Düvell, 2011;Goldring et al, 2009). At the same time, much academic work has highlighted irregular migrants' agency in contesting, undermining or overcoming the legal restrictions, administrative barriers and everyday risks they face as a result of their status (Black et al, 2006;Bloch et al, 2011;Broeders and Engbersen, 2007;Ellermann, 2010;Inda, 2011;Sigona, 2012;Vasta, 2011). One aspect that potentially links these different strands of literature but until now has received comparatively little scholarly attention is irregular migrants' integration within host societies and its interference with immigration enforcement (notable exceptions are Chauvin and Garcés-Mascareñas, 2014;Kraler, 2011;Leerkes et al, 2007;Leerkes et al, 2012;Palidda, 1998;Sandoval, 2014;Vasta, 2011).…”

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Integration against the state: Irregular migrants’ agency between deportation and regularisation in the United Kingdom

Schweitzer

2017

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Reducing the number of foreigners residing unlawfully within the borders of a state requires either their removal or the legalisation of their presence within the territory. Increasingly, governments also employ measures of internal control and limit irregular migrants' access to rights and services in order to encourage them to leave autonomously. This article aims to contribute to current debates on how to conceptualise and account for the agency that irregular migrants themselves exercise in such contexts. Within critical migration and citizenship studies, many of their everyday actions have been described as 'acts of citizenship' but also as instances of 'becoming imperceptible', neither of which captures the whole range of strategies irregular migrants employ to strengthen their fragile position vis-à-vis the state. I argue that conceptualising their agency in terms of (self-) integration allows us to account for both: practices through which they actively become political subjects as well as those that precisely constitute a deliberate refusal to do so. Empirically, this is underpinned by an analysis of recent policy developments in the United Kingdom and a series of semi-structured interviews I conducted during 8 months of fieldwork in London with migrants experiencing different kinds and degrees of irregularity.

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Integration against the state: Irregular migrants’ agency between deportation and regularisation in the United Kingdom

Schweitzer

2017

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“…Second, their legal, economic and social vulnerability makes them more subject to abuse. Third, this vulnerability also reduces their ability to claim and negotiate their rights (Bloch, Sigona and Zetter 2011, Chimienti and Solomos 2011, Chimienti 2011). Yet it has been well documented that agency is crucial in the development of rights (see among others Isin 2000), since rights must be claimed and negotiated by individuals or collectives to be effective (Basok and Carasco 2010: 344).…”

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How do international human rights influence national healthcare provisions for irregular migrants?: A case study in France and the United Kingdom

Chimienti

Solomos

2015

Journal of Human Rights

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Debates about human rights have often questioned their potential for generating rights at national levels, highlighting the discrepancies between the normative grounding of human rights and their empirical reality. In this paper we use the case of irregular migrants' access to healthcare in the UK and France to explore the extent to which international human rights can be seen as promoting access to healthcare among irregular migrants at the nationstate level. We argue that although international human rights often have a largely symbolic role in nation-state jurisdiction, they may sometimes represent a force for change.

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“…Research has, for example, explored such topics as practices of border crossings and journeying (Bloch, Sigona and Zetter, 2011;Daley, 2009;Grill, 2012), the experience of arrival in a receiving country (Ehrkamp, 2005), the sense-making processes of forced migration (Eastmond, 2007), and experiences of departure, particularly in relation to the construction of 'illegality' and deportation in everyday life (de Genova, 2012;Khosravi, 2010). Studies of non-migrants have focused on everyday encounters between migrants and non-migrants in local community settings (Armbruster, Rolb and Meinhof, 2003;Valentine and Sadgrove, 2014;Herbert et al, 2008;Fox and Jones, 2013).…”

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Experiencing transnationalism at home: Open borders and the everyday narratives of non-migrants

Tonkiss

2016

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The normative migration rights literature has engaged with the situated experience of migration to a very limited extent, with particularly little attention paid to non-migrants living in receiving localities. This article argues that exploring the non-elite narratives of non-migrants provides valuable insights for normative theorising about migration rights. The discussion is illustrated with a description of research undertaken within rural migration-receiving communities in England, which shows how the narratives of non-migrants shape the experience of migration at a micro-level. This article discusses the implications of this research for normative theory in order to demonstrate the value of this methodological approach.

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Migration routes and strategies of young undocumented migrants in England: a qualitative perspective

Cited by 90 publications

References 17 publications

Integration against the state: Irregular migrants’ agency between deportation and regularisation in the United Kingdom

Integration against the state: Irregular migrants’ agency between deportation and regularisation in the United Kingdom

How do international human rights influence national healthcare provisions for irregular migrants?: A case study in France and the United Kingdom

Experiencing transnationalism at home: Open borders and the everyday narratives of non-migrants

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