Towards a Systemic Theory of Irregular Migration

Echeverría, Gabriel

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“…An underlying theme in previous research argues that irregular migrants are not merely victims of their irregular status. However, the irregular status may be the “master status” that determines all other personal characteristics, according to Echeverria ( 2020 ). They exercise a fair amount of agency (Anderson & Ruhs, 2010 ; Bloch & Chimienti, 2011 ; Castles, 2004 ; Cvjaner & Sciortino, 2010 ; Echeverria, 2020 ; Ellermann, 2010 ; Gasana, 2012 ; Van Meeteren, 2010 , 2012 ).…”

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“…However, the irregular status may be the “master status” that determines all other personal characteristics, according to Echeverria ( 2020 ). They exercise a fair amount of agency (Anderson & Ruhs, 2010 ; Bloch & Chimienti, 2011 ; Castles, 2004 ; Cvjaner & Sciortino, 2010 ; Echeverria, 2020 ; Ellermann, 2010 ; Gasana, 2012 ; Van Meeteren, 2010 , 2012 ). Migrants find creative ways to adapt to their irregular status in many ways.…”

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COVID‐19 and threats to irregular migrants in Kuwait and the Gulf

Shah

Al-Kazi

2022

International Migration

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Prior to the COVID‐19 Pandemic, the Gulf region was home to ~29 million foreign residents, an estimated 20–40% of whom were residing there in an irregular status. Most of them had skilfully devised strategies to survive in this irregular situation, with friends and relatives acting as essential support networks. The COVID‐19 Pandemic suddenly disrupted this well‐established social order. This article outlines the lived experiences of 26 irregular migrants residing in Kuwait when the Pandemic occurred. Twelve of our interviewees were planning to leave in response to the amnesty declared on 1 April, while 14 were planning to stay or were uncertain. Network support continued to provide an essential element in enabling their survival. Intermediaries such as kafeels (sponsors) were often unavailable or unwilling to provide assistance. The health and welfare of irregular migrants require special policy attention since they now face an enhanced risk of being apprehended and deported.

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COVID‐19 and threats to irregular migrants in Kuwait and the Gulf

Shah

Al-Kazi

2022

International Migration

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Resilience strategies of Filipino irregular migrant domestic workers in the Netherlands during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Siruno

Siegel

2023

Population Space and Place

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COVID‐19 has brought a combination of health, socioeconomic and protection challenges to migrants everywhere, and a common view is that these effects have been harshest for those already in vulnerable situations before the pandemic. However, the lived experiences of Filipino irregular migrant domestic workers (IMDWs) in the Netherlands point to a range of impacts instead of a homogenous one. Drawing on interviews and participant observations, we analyse three specific pandemic consequences: income and financial remittance volatility, dual country or transnational precarity and physical and migration status immobility. We then analyse the resilience strategies deployed by IMDWs to navigate through such impacts. While our focus is on the microlevel, we also highlight the vital importance of the responses by the community on the mesolevel, and the government on the macrolevel. Following this relational approach, we put forward a conceptualisation of individual resilience as the capacity to navigate the negative impacts of a shock or crisis to maintain, adapt, or transform valued functionings. We argue that IMDWs cultivate resilience despite their precarious legal status; however, the effectiveness of strategies is contingent on personal circumstances as well as the sociopolitical context wherein they are deployed. The paper contributes to the literature by providing a more nuanced picture of the impacts of and responses to COVID‐19 in relation to migrants with irregular status. The articulation of resilience in terms of valued functionings also paves the way for the advancement of the still nascent research agenda on migration and human development.

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Schweitzer

2022

IMISCOE Research Series

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What happens in institutions like schools or hospitals when local service provision overlaps with the control of national borders? Such overlap is unavoidable if unlawful residents are to be excluded from mainstream public services. With this explicit aim, governments not only modify the rules and established practices of welfare provision, but also encourage the people who administer and deliver these services to incorporate the logic of immigration control into their everyday work. To identify and better understand the concrete mechanisms that either help or hinder such internalisation of immigration control, this study systematically compares three spheres of service provision – healthcare, education and social assistance – across two distinctive legal-political environments: Barcelona/Spain and London/UK. Looking at official policies as well as their implementation, it primarily draws on a total of almost 90 semi-structured interviews with irregular residents, providers and administrators of local services, and representatives of NGOs and local government. Its innovative analytical framework helps to map and explain the significant variation in how immigration control works within different institutions and how individual actors occupying key positions in these can reproduce, contest, or readjust formal structures of inclusion and exclusion.

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Towards a Systemic Theory of Irregular Migration

Cited by 22 publications

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COVID‐19 and threats to irregular migrants in Kuwait and the Gulf

COVID‐19 and threats to irregular migrants in Kuwait and the Gulf

Resilience strategies of Filipino irregular migrant domestic workers in the Netherlands during the COVID‐19 pandemic

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