Legal Latins: Creating Webs and Practices of Immigration Status among Latin American Migrants in London
Legal Latins: Creating Webs and Practices of Immigration Status among Latin American Migrants in London
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法律拉丁人：在伦敦的拉丁美洲移民中创建移民身份网络和实践
DOI：
10.1080/1369183x.2014.931803
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发表时间：
2015
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
C. McIlwaine
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作者：
C. McIlwaine
尽管世界日益全球化，但对人员流动的限制越来越多的障碍的影响导致人们开发复杂和创新的方式进入并在本国以外的国家定居。本文通过对来自不同国籍和社会经济背景的伦敦拉美裔美国人的定量和定性研究，考察了不同移民身份的移民如何应对这些限制，特别关注谈判的不规则性。通过分析移民如何在抵达和定居期间发展一系列入境、规范化以及空间、经济和社会隐形做法，论文挑战了移民身份和随后的福祉的二元等级。相反，它认为，将这些概念化为网络的创建，概括了移民上下谈判时移民违规行为的复杂性和动态性。文件强调了这些网和做法是如何以创新的方式出现的，需要谈判流动的移徙制度，形成一个更广泛的排斥环境，移民可以在其中行使自下而上的权力。
Despite an increasingly globalised world, the effects of ever more restrictive barriers to people's movement result in people developing complex and innovative ways to enter and settle in countries beyond their own. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative research with Latin Americans in London from a range of nationalities and socio-economic backgrounds, this paper examines how migrants across the spectrum of immigration statuses have responded to these restrictions with a particular focus on negotiating irregularity. Through analysing how migrants develop a range of entry, regularisation as well as spatial, economic and social invisibility practices as they arrive and settle, the paper challenges a binary hierarchy of immigration status and subsequent well-being. Instead, it argues that conceptualising these as the creation of webs encapsulates the complexity and dynamism of migrant irregularity as migrants negotiate from above and below. The paper highlights how these webs and practices emerge from below in innovative ways that entail negotiation of fluid migration regimes that structure a wider context of exclusion within which migrants can exercise agency from below.