What Is in a Migration Regime? Genealogical Approach and Methodological Proposal

Raß, Christoph; Wolff, Frank

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-20532-4_2

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“…In line with the overall aim of this book, the border regime analysis which is applied here and which was coined by Sabine Hess and Vassilis Tsianos (2010) following earlier discussions by Transit Migration Forschungsgruppe (2007) also emphasises that regimes are not to be understood as totalising but that processes such as (dis)integration are negotiated in situ and by migrating and non-migrating, governing and non-governing actors (see Collyer et al 2020;Rass and Wolff 2018). Our understanding of how it is possible to research (dis)integration processes and practices derives from this multi-actor approach including various forms of data.…”

Section: Methods and Analytical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 76%

Denying, While Demanding Integration: An Analysis of the Integration Paradox in Malta and Refugees’ Coping Strategies

Nimführ

Otto

Samateh

2019

IMISCOE Research Series

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Since Malta joined the EU in 2004, almost 20,000 refugees have reached its shores. Obliged to remain on the island state, they are required to integrate, despite an absence of governmental integration processes. With Malta being an EU member, its government is, however, obliged to conform to EU policies covering reception procedures. In this chapter, we analyse two fields of tension that result from this situation: (1) saving refugees at sea vs questions of border control and (2) demanding the integration of refugees whilst simultaneously denying them access to mechanisms leading to integration. Thus, we reflect on this ‘shift of duties’ – with a focus on refugees’ coping strategies in this paradoxical situation – by looking at practices of (dis)integration acted out by governing and non-governing actors. This case highlights the fact that integration and disintegration are intertwined. To illustrate this phenomenon, we employ a multi-actor approach. By collecting data and utilising textualisation strategies based on collaborative research, we challenge the issue of representing (dis)integration exclusively from the researchers’ perspective.

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Section: Methods and Analytical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 76%

Denying, While Demanding Integration: An Analysis of the Integration Paradox in Malta and Refugees’ Coping Strategies

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Otto

Samateh

2019

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“…As such, they become critical in accounting for migration practice in the Latvian case. In addition, as we will discuss in our conclusion, these add an emotional dimension to existing migration regime scholarship (Horvath, Amelina, and Peters 2017; Rass and Wolff 2018) by showing how the adoption of neoliberal discourse and neoliberal restructuring in post-Soviet Latvia, and contrasting experiences abroad after emigrating, shaped emotional states and experiences of individuals, which, in turn, were central to how they made sense of ongoing socioeconomic changes and pressures and their (changing) relation to the Latvian state and, thus, shaped migration practices in neglected but important ways.…”

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confidence: 72%

“…Last but not least, our study also has implications for the increasingly influential concept of “migration regime” in migration studies. The term “regime” also implies that there are certain power relations and unequal access to resources (Rass and Wolff 2018:42, 42–51). However, because this term is still used in many different and even contradictory ways (Horvath et al 2017; Rass and Wolff 2018), it is impossible to address it adequately here.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The term “regime” also implies that there are certain power relations and unequal access to resources (Rass and Wolff 2018:42, 42–51). However, because this term is still used in many different and even contradictory ways (Horvath et al 2017; Rass and Wolff 2018), it is impossible to address it adequately here. Nonetheless, in general, the “migration regime” concept shares our recognition of the role of discourse as well as of situating migration in a highly complex, multilayered, and potentially conflictual context that shapes general migration practice, while regime scholars tend to place a greater emphasis on the regulation of migration via more explicit attention to migration itself by actors in different power positions.…”

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(Self-)Confidence, Migration, and the State: A Study of Emigration from Latvia

Ķešāne

Weyher

2020

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How do Latvian emigrants’ emotional apprehensions of social and cultural change in post-Soviet Latvia, and the contrasting experience they gain abroad, affect their relationship with the Latvian state and their ongoing emigration status? By contrasting the personal narratives of 59 emigrants with the Latvian state’s public transformation discourse, we argue that the culture the sending state presents to its public—both in its official discourse and day-to-day interactions with civilians—and the emotions this triggers in people based on their everyday life experiences, deepens our understanding of the post-Soviet emigration regime. Specifically, how state discourse and interactions affect feelings of recognition and the related emotions of confidence (particularly, self-confidence), pride, and shame are important for understanding post-Soviet emigration. Exaggerated neoliberal notions of the “West” dominated both the post-Soviet civil discourse and the policies and practices implemented to guide the transition, fashioning an environment where people felt shamed, and their self-confidence was injured. However, emigration and growing confidence in receiving states helped many regain a sense of comfort, self-confidence, and empowerment.

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“…Beyond disaggregating different dimensions, social parties (migrants and the mainstream) and levels of analysis, it is proposed to dwell on policy frames, concrete measures and the horizontal and vertical processes in different policy domains, including those that specifically target migrants and those regulating broader societal institutions. Rass and Wolff (2018) have also drawn up a complex analytical frame to examine migration governance which has obvious overlaps with integration research. Their multi-layered scheme takes further steps to investigate regime formations without searching pre-analytical nation-state-framed domestic regimes.…”

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Conclusions: Perspectives and Puzzles in Researching Politics of (Dis)Integration

Zentai¹

2019

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Much has been written in academia about integration following migration to and within Europe in the post-WW II era. Integration has served as a central term in political, policy and scholarly debates to denote principles, discourses, interventions and social practices which ensure sustained interactions and cooperation across different groups or parts of society, including those who were born within and outside of particular, typically state, borders. The ideal of integration has mastered both the feared and the cherished aspects of social difference. Disintegration, in turn, has been posited as a concept referring to processes that neglect, diminish, dilute or deliberately deconstruct what liberal political systems have promoted through the idea of integration. (Dis)integration is investigated in this volume to examine the complex interactions and controversies of the twin processes of integration and disintegration by which societies and policies respond to people moving across (nation-state) borders and contribute to redrawing the social landscapes where they arrive. A European perspective is extended to other migrant destinations in the global North, more precisely to Israel and Canada, in order to offer insights into diverse domestic social and political practices as well as cross-national debates on the politics of human mobility. The authors in this volume have originally contemplated to explore the politics of integration by engaging in multi-layered investigations into how migrants and refugees are defined, placed or moved by policies, institutions, and administrative protocols, yet deliberately, tacitly or inadvertently affecting institutions and relations in society at large. As highlighted in the introduction, the contributing authors have explored a whole continuum of practices producing integration and disintegration, often simultaneously or interlaced. The exchanges, cross-readings, and horizontal conversations across the authors' collective have helped the editors acknowledge that the nuanced attention to the processes of integration and

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What Is in a Migration Regime? Genealogical Approach and Methodological Proposal

Cited by 33 publications

References 114 publications

Denying, While Demanding Integration: An Analysis of the Integration Paradox in Malta and Refugees’ Coping Strategies

Denying, While Demanding Integration: An Analysis of the Integration Paradox in Malta and Refugees’ Coping Strategies

(Self-)Confidence, Migration, and the State: A Study of Emigration from Latvia

Conclusions: Perspectives and Puzzles in Researching Politics of (Dis)Integration

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