Precarious Presence: Mobilisation and Immobilisation in the Interactions between Local Immigration Authorities and Persons on Exceptional Leave to Remain

领土组织国家试图通过构建和控制地理和社会流动选择来应对与跨境流动相关的挑战。一旦有移动的人员进入其领土，国家当局就必须依靠与有关人员的“成功”互动来执行移徙和融合政策。这就提出了一个问题，即这种相互作用的内在逻辑是否以及如何影响流动性控制机构。我们的研究项目对德国当地移民局的互动订单进行了系统深入的调查。其主要目的是研究（长期）特殊居留许可人员与移民当局人员之间的互动轨迹。主要关切的问题涉及相互期望和规则，以及在谈判和为被暂停驱逐的人确定流动选择方面固有的矛盾。我们假设，互动秩序本身产生了一系列的悖论，并产生了不稳定的居住形式，这不是所涉及的任何一方的意图。对（长期）特殊居留者与国家当局之间紧张关系的分析有望为社会和地理动员过程提供新的见解。

Territorially organised states attempt to deal with the challenges associated with cross-border mobility by structuring and controlling geographical and social mobility options. Once mobile persons are present on their territory, state authorities are dependent on ‘successful’ interactions with the people concerned in the attempt to implement migration and integration policies. This poses the question of whether and how the intrinsic logic of such interactions affects the institutions of mobility control. Our research project undertakes a systematic, in-depth investigation of interaction orders at local immigration authorities in Germany. Its key aim is to study the trajectories of interactions between persons on (long-term) exceptional leave to remain and immigration authority personnel. Central concerns are issues connected with mutual expectations and rules and contradictions inherent in the negotiation and establishment of mobility options for people whose deportation has been suspended. We assume that the interaction order itself produces a range of paradoxes and generates precarious forms of residence that are not intended by either of the parties involved. The analysis of the tense relation between people on (long-term) exceptional leave to remain and state authorities promises to generate new insights into processes of social and geographical (im)mobilisation.