Pub Date : 2023-06-21DOI: 10.1093/migration/mnad013
E (Eline) Westra, S A (Saskia) Bonjour, F F (Floris) Vermeulen
Abstract Political struggles over national belonging often involve ideas on what a ‘proper’ family looks like. This article connects this important insight from the field of family migration politics to the study of postcolonial citizenship. Rather than focusing on dominant (State) perspectives, we ask: how do citizens from formerly colonised territories themselves conceptualise ‘the family’ and ‘the nation’ in the former metropole? We do so in a historical exploration of the political claims that three different Surinamese–Dutch organisations made regarding family migration rights, in the wake of Suriname’s independence (1975). We find that the organisations collectively claimed the recognition of Suriname-specific family forms in Dutch migration policy, such as unmarried coupledom (konkubinaat) and temporary foster children (kweekjes). Thereby they put forward a vision of postcolonial citizenship which challenged dominant conceptions of nationhood in the Netherlands, assuming instead that formerly colonised subjects and their ‘difference’ inherently and inevitably belong to Dutch national history and identity. In this vision, they reframed the Dutch nation’s spatio-temporal boundaries (the colonial past did not end at independence and there are ongoing transnational ties), and cultural boundaries (‘Surinamese difference’ is a constitutive element of Dutch postcolonial citizenship). In view of contemporary calls for decolonisation of European societies and scholarship, these claims represent important and inspiring contributions to ongoing debates on citizenship in a postcolonial nation.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-20DOI: 10.1093/migration/mnad015
Isabell Schierenbeck, Andrea Spehar, Tareq Naseef
Abstract The article examines how newly arrived Syrian refugees experience and navigate their encounters with street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) in three urban settings: Adana, Turkey; Gothenburg, Sweden; and Irbid, Jordan. The encounters took place in the context of local government institutions responsible for assisting refugees upon their arrival in the host society. The broader question examined is how refugees respond when experiencing dissatisfaction with their encounters with SLBs in the receiving country. In our analysis, we draw upon the Exit, Voice, Loyalty, Neglect model suggesting different patterns of response to dissatisfaction with public services. We also deploy an additional, understudied response type, Gaming. The degree of satisfaction–dissatisfaction experienced by Syrian refugees and the kind of response strategies they resorted to as a consequence of that experience varied notably from country to country. Syrian refugees in Gothenburg and Adana felt more dissatisfied with and frustrated by their encounters with SLBs than their compatriots in Irbid. The responses of the refugees in Adana were mostly of the Exit and Neglect type. In Gothenburg, on the other hand, interviewees primarily resorted to Neglect and Voice responses, while in Irbid Gaming, Exit, and Loyalty were the most common response strategies opted for to express and act upon one’s dissatisfaction.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-24DOI: 10.1093/migration/mnad012
Luise Vormittag
The Elephant and Castle neighbourhood in London is well known as a centre for the Latin American community in the UK. The drastic demolition of the site threatens their continued presence. This article chronicles my work as an illustrator on a project that sought to represent this migrant community, their vibrancy, and vitality on the cusp of the site’s erasure. Through a series of participatory, creative workshops a range of illustrative documents were produced that, ultimately, became archival records. Working on the project enabled a reflection on the role of the illustrator in the context of cultural devastation, and retrieval and preservation of the relationship between migrants and the spaces they occupy. This gave rise to a deeper set of questions about the nature of community as such. Drawing on Jean-Luc Nancy’s philosophical work on community and Hannah Arendt’s writing on the public realm, I argue that this illustration project visualises and materialises experiences and expressions of community at a moment when this sociality was itself under threat.
伦敦的大象城堡（Elephant and Castle）社区是英国著名的拉丁美洲社区中心。该遗址的大规模拆除威胁到他们的持续存在。这篇文章记录了我作为一名插画家在一个项目中的工作，该项目试图代表这个移民社区，他们的活力，以及网站被删除时的活力。通过一系列参与性、创造性的研讨会，制作了一系列说明性文件，最终成为档案记录。通过该项目的工作，可以反思插画师在文化破坏背景下的作用，以及恢复和保护移民与他们所占据的空间之间的关系。这引发了一系列关于社区性质的更深层次的问题。根据让-吕克·南希关于社区的哲学著作和汉娜·阿伦特关于公共领域的著作，我认为，在这种社会性本身受到威胁的时刻，这个插图项目将社区的经历和表达可视化并具体化。
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Pub Date : 2023-05-24DOI: 10.1093/migration/mnad011
L. Odasso
In France, the COVID-19 pandemic was experienced as a cascading crisis, with its effects rippling out beyond its initial health domain. Due to the lockdown and ban on travel, the closure of borders, and the slowdown of administrative services, the pandemic had an unanticipated effect on transnational French/foreign couples lacking formal legal relationship status, causing separation and uncertainty. Overlapping health and migration concerns generated a new specific border regime, which reinforced the already existing ‘deservingness’ criteria for seeking to move to and integrate into the nation. The imposed geographical and administrative immobilisation led to some couples creating online self-help communities, which offered emotional support and shared coping strategies for couples caught in the deadlock. These communities have given the challenges faced by mixed-status couples fresh visibility. Drawing on an ethnography conducted in four online communities, in-depth interviews with transnational couples, and an analysis of politico-juridical materials and grey literature, this article focuses on marriage becoming the option for French/foreign couples seeking the right to reunite in France during an uncertain period. More precisely, by using crisis studies to frame the impact of the pandemic and articulating the scholarship on socio-legal and intimate citizenship, the experiences of such couples can be understood as specific processes in legal consciousness, producing acts of intimate citizenship. This perspective helps demonstrate how the pandemic emphasised the policing of migrant couples, and how institutional and legal opportunities narrowed the choices available to such couples, reducing the potential of change that is generally inherent in crises.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-22DOI: 10.1093/migration/mnad010
Ruth Preser, Ayala Olier
This article asks the question: What does the term status mean with regard to women without legal status in Israel? Ostensibly, status represents a sovereign state’s formal classification system. In practice, however—according to the accounts of statusless women, civil society activists, and welfare and health officials, as analyzed in this article—status, or its lack thereof, is not a one-off, absolute condition, but an ephemeral and vulnerable position. This article examines two concurrent processes: the blurring of boundaries between status and statuslessness; and the process of differentiating groups of racialized, undesired, and unwelcomed women foreigners: Palestinian women residents of the Occupied Palestinian Territories; asylum-seeking women from Africa; and women from the Former Soviet Union, who have either been trafficked by the sex industry, or separated from their Israeli-citizen spouse before completing their naturalization. Drawing on feminist and critical race renditions of bare life, we explore the ways in which statusless women are positioned in relation to violent power. Moving away from a polarized and emancipatory discussion of legality, we argue that in the absence of full access to legal status, the body may serve as a more fitting alternative in the analysis of abandonment and violence.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-19DOI: 10.1093/migration/mnad009
Martin Lundsteen
While much contemporary analysis of social problems in disadvantaged neighbourhoods have ignored the deep connections between everyday interactions in space and the structural tensions due to ethnic, racial, class, and gender inequalities that underlie them, this article offers a critical analysis of the groupings put into practice locally in relation to space. Through an ethnography carried out in Salt, a semi-rural Catalan town, this article analyses the emergence and functioning of exclusionary visions on a super-diverse neighbourhood. It does so through a multi-dimensional analysis of the historical macro and micro processes of how resentment towards newcomers emerged in town. Through a mixture of method, such as a review of newspaper clippings from 2000 to 2013, 40 interviews, and participant observation carried out between 2011 and 2014, we see how the much-liked idea of a ‘welcoming town’ promoted by the city council, collides with the lived reality, where many Spanish nationals order the Centre neighbourhood in terms of ‘those from outside’ and ‘the ones from here’. These divisions might easily cross boundaries of ethnicity and culture, and mainly refer to the temporal settlement of the inhabitants. However, in this case they coincide with the grouping of the long-established residents, former migrants from other parts of Spain and Catalans, in contrast to the newly arrived ‘migrants’. This way, we see how social inequalities among residents foster internal divisions expressed through or in a competition over space, that is, residence and use of public space, while at the same time it structures the social understanding of them.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-03DOI: 10.1093/migration/mnad008
Katharine A H Charsley, H. Wray
The UK’s family immigration regime involves the routine separation of partners from their families. Most obviously, it keeps apart those who are unable to meet the income and other requirements for family (re)unification, and those refused visas. But separation for at least several months, and sometimes much longer, is the norm even for those whose applications are eventually successful. This article draws on creative, co-produced accounts of immigration-related separation to reveal multi-faceted temporalities of crisis in the ‘experiential migrantisation’ of British citizens seeking to reunite bi-national families in the UK. The bureaucratic temporalities of immigration control impede aspirations for life-course progression and shared futures, while increasing the tempo of working and caring lives. In exploring the accounts of British citizens kept apart from partners by the immigration regime through a temporal lens, we chart this experiential migrantisation through the varied and intersecting temporalities of bureaucracy and immigration control, and of biography and (transnational) family life. These can become intertwined with and compound other temporalities of crisis at different levels, from the global Covid-19 pandemic and other international geo-political events, to the more intimate and familial, leading to ‘times of crises’. Such crises are, moreover, often expressed through temporal tropes of key dates missed—birthdays, anniversaries, holidays—and phases of family life postponed.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-18DOI: 10.1093/migration/mnad007
S. Vezzoli
This article explores the factors and mechanisms that underpin aspirations to stay in situations where migration could be beneficial. To do so, this article proposes a spatial–temporal comparative framework and explains aspirations to stay through the notion of relative endowment, which reveals a positive assessment of what people have, despite the awareness of social inequalities. Empirically, the article focuses on a rural town in northern Brazil that has experienced a stagnating economy since the 1990s, where young adults express aspirations to stay. Non-economic factors such as closeness to nature, family, and friends not only encourage staying, but make young people feel endowed in relation to a perceived stressful work-centered urban life. The proposed framework reveals that the overall negative perspectives on the town’s present are congruous with aspirations to stay because of young people’s positive feelings about the town’s past and future. In fact, hope plays an important role in shaping aspirations to stay. This article shows the value of considering people’s perceptions of past, present, and future and how they influence aspirations to stay, and migrate.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-08DOI: 10.1093/migration/mnad006
{"title":"Correction to: Colonized subjects and their emigration experiences. The case of Iranian students and their integration strategies in Western Europe","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/migration/mnad006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnad006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46309,"journal":{"name":"Migration Studies","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135692949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-21DOI: 10.1093/migration/mnad005
{"title":"Correction to: Subjective and intangible factors in migration decision-making: A review of side-lined literature","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/migration/mnad005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnad005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46309,"journal":{"name":"Migration Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136339347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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