Collecting, assembling, ordering: Border politics and the invisible data work of asylum

Lucrezia Canzutti, Claudia Aradau
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This article proposes to understand the ‘invisible data work’ that asylum seekers must do to put together a ‘credible’ asylum application. While the intersections between asylum and work have typically been analysed in relation to access to employment and labour conditions, we attend to the work of collecting, assembling, and ordering different forms of analogue and digital data inherent to the asylum process. Building on feminist interdisciplinary debates on work and drawing on a selection of asylum appeals from Italy and the UK, we argue that seeking asylum entails extensive and continual invisible work that requires significant resources, effort, skills and time. Attending to these forms of invisible work is crucial to understanding the challenges of seeking asylum beyond the migration journey and the implications of performing ‘invisible data work’ unaided and unequipped. It also counters problematic depictions of asylum seekers as passive subjects who are ‘just waiting’ for a decision to be made. Finally, rendering the collection and assemblage of data as ‘invisible work’ rather than just ‘doings’ has political implications for understanding the resources, responsibilities and resistance to the border politics of making precarious subjects.
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收集、组合、排序:边境政治和无形的庇护数据工作
本文旨在了解寻求庇护者为提出 "可信的 "庇护申请而必须完成的 "无形的数据工作"。庇护与工作之间的交集通常从获得就业和劳动条件的角度进行分析,而我们关注的是庇护过程中所固有的收集、组合和排序不同形式的模拟和数字数据的工作。在女权主义跨学科工作辩论的基础上,并借鉴意大利和英国的部分庇护申请,我们认为寻求庇护需要大量持续的无形工作,需要大量的资源、精力、技能和时间。关注这些形式的隐形工作,对于理解寻求庇护的挑战、移民旅程之外的挑战以及在没有辅助和装备的情况下从事 "隐形数据工作 "的影响至关重要。它还反驳了将寻求庇护者描述为 "只是在等待 "做出决定的被动主体的问题。最后,将数据的收集和组合视为 "无形的工作",而不仅仅是 "做",这对理解资源、责任和抵制边境政治的 "不稳定主体 "具有政治意义。
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