Signer la déportation

Maâ, Anissa

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“…First, they are not directly led by State authorities, but are framed and implemented worldwide by the IOM and its local partners (Maâ, 2021). Besides, the implementation of voluntary returns significantly relies on the subjectivity and agency of migrants (Cleton and Chauvin, 2019; Maâ, 2019). In that sense, they profoundly reshape the political imaginary of deportation, shifting it from one of a compulsory State-led order, to a migrant-based and well-informed decision, supposedly benefiting to both returnees and their communities (Fine and Walters, 2022).…”

Section: Voluntary Returns and The Aommentioning

confidence: 99%

Autonomy of migration in the light of deportation. Ethnographic and theoretical accounts of entangled appropriations of voluntary returns from Morocco

Maâ

2023

Environ Plan D

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The intricate relationship between border control and migrations is the core puzzle of this paper, which takes voluntary returns from Morocco as a case study and autonomy of migration (AoM) as a theoretical framework. More precisely, the paper examines voluntary returns from the perspective of migrants themselves to grasp border control through the lens of its disputed, distorted and sometimes subverted implementation. The paper draws on data collected during fieldwork conducted between 2016 and 2018 in Morocco, including ethnographic observations and interviews with staff from the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), migrants and local intermediaries. It focuses on the case of sub-Saharan migrants leaving Morocco through “Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration” programmes led by IOM and confronts empirical data with the AoM theoretical framework. The paper demonstrates that migrants’ entangled appropriations of return are defined in close relationship with a wide range of actors intervening during the process of return. Ultimately, migrants reformulate the meaning of their involvement in voluntary return into strategic, moral, relative, and symbolic terms. However, these entangled appropriations of a deportation device simultaneously reinforce social norms and institutional regulations underlying migration dynamics and border control. Eventually, the paper draws conclusions on the political effects of migrants' entangled appropriation of a deportation device on the production of intertwined im/mobility regimes between the Mediterranean and sub-Saharan Africa.

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Section: Voluntary Returns and The Aommentioning

confidence: 99%

Autonomy of migration in the light of deportation. Ethnographic and theoretical accounts of entangled appropriations of voluntary returns from Morocco

Maâ

2023

Environ Plan D

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“…In parallel, humanitarian organisations such as Caritas, Catholic and Evangelic Churches and migrant community associations facilitate the dissemination of information about return opportunities towards migrants, refer return candidates to IOM, and sometimes provide accommodation to beneficiaries waiting for return. Finally, migrants themselves show their adherence to the principle of voluntary return, as demonstrated by the high level of return request faced by IOM, migrants' active involvement in the procedure, and their periodic collective mobilisations to demand return assistance (Bartels 2017;Maâ 2019). How come that actors occupying heterogeneous positions in the migration field ultimately agree on their daily participation to IOM's AVRR programmes?…”

Section: Voluntary Returnsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this objective, the intermediation of non-state actors is decisive, especially when they enjoy a trust-based relation with migrants (Dünnwald 2013;Cleton and Chauvin 2019). Ultimately, migrants themselves become central agents of the institutionalisation of AVRR programmes, especially given the fieldbased legitimisation they ensure to the latter (Bartels 2017;Maâ 2019).…”

Section: Intermediation and Collaborationmentioning

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“…In response, dozens of migrants settled in front of the agency's mission to demand return assistance and were supported by 'civil society associations and even activists groups, that had been generally rather sceptical regarding IOM's presence and services in Morocco' (Bartels 2017, 9). Migrants' public mobilisations for return assistance in front of IOM's office are not exceptional and resurfaced with a certain strength during 2016 (Maâ 2019). These protests reveal ambivalent dynamics, as they demonstrate migrants' capacity of action while legitimising both voluntary returns and IOM's central position in AVRR programmes.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…More importantly though, migrants' demand for return assistance results from their original appropriation of AVRR procedure. Faced with the uncertainty of their journey and living conditions, migrants often sign up for voluntary return without any immediate intention of returning home (Maâ 2019). This practice is all the more favoured since migrants are aware of the procedural waiting period and see their solidarity networks eroded by precarity.…”

Section: Migrants' Collaboration In the Field Of Returnmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Manufacturing collaboration in the deportation field: intermediation and the institutionalisation of the International Organisation for Migration’s ‘voluntary return’ programmes in Morocco

Maâ

2020

The Journal of North African Studies

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In Morocco, the implementation of the 'Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration' programmes (AVRR) run by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) counts on the widespread collaboration of governmental and humanitarian migration practitioners and of migrants themselves. How come that actors occupying such heterogeneous positions in the migration field ultimately agree on their daily participation to IOM's AVRR programmes? What power rationales structure this collaborative network on return? The article draws on documentary sources and fieldwork conducted between 2016 and 2018 in Morocco. It adopts a socio-historical perspective that denaturalises the institutionalisation of AVRR programmes and combines the relevant empirical data with a theoretical discussion on collaboration in the deportation field. It argues that the institutionalisation of AVRR programmes in Morocco results from power rationales of intermediation and collaboration amongst different actorsboth at an institutional level and on the ground. This gives rise to non-homogenous and sometimes seemingly contradictory forms of appropriation of voluntary return by third actors within the migration field.

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Migration Control as Communication? Voluntary Returns, Information Campaigns and the Justification of Contested Migration/Border Governance

Pécoud

2022

Journal of Borderlands Studies

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Signer la déportation

Cited by 10 publications

References 37 publications

Autonomy of migration in the light of deportation. Ethnographic and theoretical accounts of entangled appropriations of voluntary returns from Morocco

Autonomy of migration in the light of deportation. Ethnographic and theoretical accounts of entangled appropriations of voluntary returns from Morocco

Manufacturing collaboration in the deportation field: intermediation and the institutionalisation of the International Organisation for Migration’s ‘voluntary return’ programmes in Morocco

Migration Control as Communication? Voluntary Returns, Information Campaigns and the Justification of Contested Migration/Border Governance

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