Non-state actors in the regularisation of undocumented youths: the role of the ‘education without borders network’ in Paris

Ruszczyk, Stephen P.

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2018.1495068

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“…Municipalities and civil society actors profit from local networks and collaborations and act in a dynamic setting (Swerts and Nicholls 2020). Civil society organisations may operate as intermediaries between (irregular) migrants and state actors to link them with social and political resources (Ruszczyk 2019). On the other hand, there are clearly limits to these collaborations since some of the social movements have more radical, transformative visions than the municipalities want to afford and municipal policies themselves vary between symbolic declaration and concrete implementation (Lambert and Swerts 2019).…”

Section: Ilker Ataç and Helge Schwiertzmentioning

confidence: 99%

Negotiating Borders through a Politics of Scale: Municipalities and Urban Civil Society Initiatives in the Contested Field of Migration

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Schwiertz²,

Jørgensen

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Geopolitics

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In contrast to the increasingly repressive migration policies at national and supranational scales, new pro-migrant policies, networks, and practices of support have been initiated at the local scale. In numerous European municipalities, political visions and concrete experiences of inclusive approaches in the field of migration have emerged in recent years that combine questions of the right to global freedom of movement and social rights. While numerous studies have examined these "politics of scale" and scale-making at the local level in different places, this forum aims to further these debates by reflecting the entanglement of social movements and civil society organisations with the local municipalities across Europe and by bringing the analyses and experiences of diverse initiatives into discussion. We therefore examine practices, relations and institutions of local migration politics that re-negotiate and bypass national and supranational borders at local scales, but also create new borders and boundaries in these processes. With this multidisciplinary forum, we aim at advancing empirical analysis as well as theoretical debates in the wider field of migration and geopolitics. Each contribution deals with a concrete empirical case of local politics and the challenges that emerge in these contexts -focusing on European "host societies" in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, and Germany -as well as with analytical concepts that are key to understanding these cases and to linking them to broader societal structures and dynamics.

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Section: Ilker Ataç and Helge Schwiertzmentioning

confidence: 99%

Negotiating Borders through a Politics of Scale: Municipalities and Urban Civil Society Initiatives in the Contested Field of Migration

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Schwiertz²,

Jørgensen

et al. 2023

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“…Individuals perceive and manage deportability and regularizability differently (Asad, 2020). Protective factors may mitigate experiences of migrant illegality, such as a sense of being invisible to government surveillance, city sanctuary policies, and access to public transportation (Asad, 2020; Ruszczyk, 2019). Some undocumented adults see their deportation risk as contingent on how hard they work and their self‐sufficiency (Andrews, 2018) and thus deserve protection.…”

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Moral career of migrant il/legality: Undocumented male youths in New York City and Paris negotiating deportability and regularizability

Ruszczyk

2021

Law Soc Rev

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As undocumented youths transition from arrival to adolescence to adulthood, regimes of migrant il/legality shape their lives in varying ways. Over the life course, undocumented youths' legal status may also shift, creating different "careers of il/legality," sequences characterized by changes to legal status over time that re-shape self, mobility, and social roles. Longitudinal, comparative ethnographic data with undocumented male youths in Paris and New York and schools, municipal and civil society organizations show how shifts in legal status reshape youths' social identities based on access to institutional roles and evaluation of current and future conditions. Showing how undocumented youths simultaneously navigate deportation and regularization possibilities over time reveals the possibilities of, and constraints to, life after regularization.

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“…The density of urban environments helps activists and migrants to weave networks of solidarity and engage in a set of formal and informal policies, practices and performances, while also facilitating the politisation of irregular migrants’ interests (Nicholls, 2016; Swerts, 2017). Societal actors are able to exploit alternative venues and veto points on different governmental levels (Bazurli, 2019; Ruszczyk, 2019; van Eck, 2020) that can occur within the same level of government (horizontal venue shopping) or across different levels of government (vertical venue shopping). Thus, they are versatile in their ability to target different levels of government when seeking policy change.…”

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Urbanising migration policy-making: Urban policies in support of irregular migrants in Geneva and Zürich

Kaufmann

2020

Urban Studies

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Cities worldwide develop a variety of urban policies that address the precarious situation of irregular migrants. By doing so, cities intervene in a policy-making realm that is commonly perceived as the prerogative of national states and they thereby challenge the national state as the only regulatory body over immigration and citizenship. We compare policy-making in support of irregular migrants in the two biggest Swiss cities of Geneva and Zürich. Whereas Genevan authorities and local societal actors established a successful regularisation programme (called Operation Papyrus), actors in Zürich aim to create an urban ID card programme (called Züri City Card). We find that the institutional setting of the two cities (as a city-state or as a city in a state), the presence or absence of multilevel governance networks as well as societal actors’ different venue shopping strategies are key for explaining these different urban policy-making processes. Cities formulate place-based urban policy responses, but these specific urban policies can be viewed within the global struggles to improve the precarious situations of irregular migrants and to fight exclusionary national politics. In essence, this article documents and explains how cities contest national state sovereignty over immigration and citizenship and it thereby calls for an urbanisation of migration theory and practice.

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Non-state actors in the regularisation of undocumented youths: the role of the ‘education without borders network’ in Paris

Cited by 9 publications

References 19 publications

Negotiating Borders through a Politics of Scale: Municipalities and Urban Civil Society Initiatives in the Contested Field of Migration

Negotiating Borders through a Politics of Scale: Municipalities and Urban Civil Society Initiatives in the Contested Field of Migration

Moral career of migrant il/legality: Undocumented male youths in New York City and Paris negotiating deportability and regularizability

Urbanising migration policy-making: Urban policies in support of irregular migrants in Geneva and Zürich

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