Theorising the ‘migration fix’: workerisation and exclusion in the European border regime
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DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2024.2434927
Abstract: ABSTRACT The contemporary European border regime is shaped by an apparently paradoxical set of developments: while the securitisation of borders and the violent exclusion of displaced people intensifies, the demand for foreign workers is rapidly… read more here.
Keywords: migration fix; border regime; migration; border ... See more keywords
Migrant workers within the platform assemblage: entwined temporalities of gig work and the border regime
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DOI: 10.1080/1369183x.2024.2379645
Abstract: ABSTRACT The temporal structuring of migrant gig workers’ work and lives has been insufficiently addressed in research. Drawing on multi-sited onlineoffline methodologies, including interviews with migrants working via location-based work platforms (cleaning, food delivery) in… read more here.
Keywords: border regime; platform assemblage; work;
Interoperability and the multiple modes of ordering in Europe's digital border regime
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DOI: 10.1111/imig.70022
Abstract: Drawing on qualitative interview data and document analysis, this article traces the making of interoperability between databases as a policy response to Europe's crisis‐laden management of migration. It argues that, rather than adhering to a… read more here.
Keywords: border regime; europe; modes ordering; interoperability ... See more keywords
The ‘Long Spring’ of migration management: Labour supply in the pandemic-induced EU border regime
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DOI: 10.1177/02633957231162822
Abstract: Pandemic-induced border lockdowns in the spring of 2020 severely disrupted the migrant-labour supply in Western EU economies. This disruption of the EU border regime took place for different, even opposite reasons than the so-called ‘crisis’… read more here.
Keywords: induced border; border regime; border; pandemic induced ... See more keywords
Autonomy within entanglements: Illegalised migrants, the EU border regime, and the political economy of Nouadhibou, Mauritania
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DOI: 10.1177/02637758221090250
Abstract: This article contributes to debates about the autonomy of migration (AoM) by ethnographically detailing the EU border regime's external operations in Nouadhibou, Mauritania. In showing how the EU border regime is entangled within the political… read more here.
Keywords: nouadhibou mauritania; migrants border; border regime; political economy ... See more keywords