Banal bordering: Everyday encounters between migrants and security officers
Banal bordering: Everyday encounters between migrants and security officers
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平庸的边界:移民和安全官员之间的日常接触
DOI:
10.1093/migration/mnab002
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
1.9
通讯作者:
Innes A
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作者:
Innes A
The encounter between a migrant and the state is almost always fraught. The power of the state to approve or deny immigration status produces a power imbalance whereby the migrant is subject to the whim of the state. This research extracts encounters between migrants, police, immigration officers, and interpreters in the UK to conceptualise how the minutia of these encounters, and the standardised practices they involve, might impact the ability of migrants to express themselves and exercise their own voice in interactions. Adopting a reflexive ethnographic methodology, and using data gathered with police workers as a pilot case, I consider how the varied objectives of agencies and actors in the migration sector intersect with migrant experiences in practice. Ultimately, implications for migrant security lie in the recognition that migrant voice can be obscured as a result of mundane and everyday procedures. Banal bordering processes can go unnoticed and unaddressed by policy makers, but are often loaded with meaning for migrants subject to them. The vulnerability of migrants and the unbalanced nature of encounters between migrants and the state highlights how state power manifests at an everyday level, suggesting that insecurity is not unique to migrants without documents, but is present in all encounters between migrants and the state. Nevertheless, the professionals who are interacting with migrants are often in a position whereby they have the experiential expertise to offer workable, though limited, solutions, although they do not always have access to the channels or the resources necessary to implement them.
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2.4
作者:
C. Enloe
通讯作者:
C. Enloe
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2008
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DOI:
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发表时间:
2020
期刊:
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影响因子:
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作者:
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通讯作者:
Jill M. Williams
影响因子:
2.9
作者:
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通讯作者:
Gabriella Sanchez
DOI:
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发表时间:
2018
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影响因子:
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作者:
M. Stierl
通讯作者:
M. Stierl