scholarly journals The Illegal, the Missing: an Evaluation of Conceptual Inventions

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Oelgemöller
Keyword(s):  
Illegal Migration ◽  
Illegal Migrant ◽  
Migration Management ◽  
Political Evaluation ◽  
Global North ◽  
Mediterranean Migration

Migration Management, a regime of radical differentiation and exclusion, renders many people illegal because they violate the laws of access across geopolitical borders. Migration Management further disappears some of these illegal people outside of the external boundaries of the Global North. Recently, however, discursive moves to mobilise the concept of the ‘missing person’ in the context of illegal migration have been introduced when discussing Mediterranean migration in particular. This article offers an ethico-political evaluation of such conceptual innovations. The article asks if a reconceptualisation of the illegal migrant as ‘missing person’ is able to destabilise Migration Management and concludes that this is unlikely. The article illustrates how this reconceptualisation cements the more radical practices of exclusion whilst the boundary-drawing is reformulated as one between dead and living migrants.

scholarly journals The Migration State in the Global South: Nationalizing, Developmental, and Neoliberal Models of Migration Management

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 853-882 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona B. Adamson ◽  
Gerasimos Tsourapas
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Global South ◽  
Current Version ◽  
Liberal Democracies ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Migration Management ◽  
Migration Research ◽  
Management Regimes ◽  
Global North ◽  
Management Policies

How do states in the Global South manage cross-border migration? This article identifies Hollifield’s “migration state” as a useful tool for comparative analysis yet notes that in its current version the concept is limited, given its focus on economic immigration in advanced liberal democracies. We suggest a framework for extending the “migration state” concept by introducing a typology of nationalizing, developmental, and neoliberal migration management regimes. The article explains each type and provides illustrative examples drawn from a range of case studies. To conclude, it discusses the implications of this analysis for comparative migration research, including the additional light it sheds on the migration management policies of states in the Global North.

scholarly journals The Effect of Illegal Migrant Workers on the Economic Development of Malaysia

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-93
Author(s):  
Ashikul Hoque ◽  
Mohammad Waliul Hasanat ◽  
Farzana Afrin Shikha ◽  
Baishaki Islam Mou ◽  
Abu Bakar Abdul Hamid
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
National Income ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Illegal Migration ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Illegal Migrant ◽  
Illegal Migrants ◽  
Survey Technique

Malaysia over the years has shown huge development by eradicating a huge level of poverty and channelizing its resources in a good way. Immigrants have played a very positive role in this economic development. The main purpose of this research is to visualize the contribution of illegal migrant workers in the Malaysian economy.   The primary and secondary research methods are being used in this research paper to analyses the situation more broadly. The survey technique and the government's reports are used to collect data. The results have shown that unemployment around the globe is the main reason for the illegal migration of the workers. The statistics said that about 2.1 million immigrants are being registered, whereas, about 1 million are undocumented individuals. The studies have shown that these low –skilled workers can contribute to the economy and GDP of Malaysia by 1.1%. This will ultimately help the Malaysians to increase their wage rate and create a large amount of employment in the country. The analysis has also showcased that Malaysia has a higher gross national income per capita than Indonesia.  Some individuals come with proper visas while some come through illegal means. Maximum cases are being reported about the workers who migrate to Malaysia on illegal grounds.  Malaysian people have remarkably gained a great deal of education in the past few years. So for the primary source of laborers, these Illegal migrants are being used with lower skills. This study will help to analyze how much the economic development of Malaysia is dependent on illegal migrant workers.

scholarly journals Expulsion or Imprisonment? Criminal Law Sanctions for Breaching an Entry Ban in the Light of Crimmigration Law

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 247
Author(s):  
Jim Waasdorp ◽  
Aniel Pahladsingh
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Illegal Migration ◽  
Member States ◽  
National Legislation ◽  
Illegal Migrant ◽  
Court Of Justice ◽  
The Eu

At EU-level, the use of substantive criminal law as a response to illegal migration is materialised by both the EU legislator and the Member States individually. EU involvement in criminalizing illegal migration takes place in a twofold manner: directly, through harmonization of national legislations, and indirectly, through the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). An example of the latter is the case law of the CJEU regarding criminal law sanctions for breaching an entry ban. In 2008 the EU adopted the Return Directive. This directive aims at establishing common standards and procedures to be applied in Member States for returning illegally staying third-country nationals. To actually effectuate their return, the Return Directive provides for several instruments, inter alia, entry bans. In this article, we will analyse six judgments of the CJEU in the light of crimmigration law and make a distinction between the Member Statesʼ power to classify a breach of an entry ban as an offence and to lay down criminal law sanctions in national legislation, and their power to impose such sanctions.Key notes: Return Directive, entry ban, illegal migrant, criminal law sanctions, crimmigration, expulsion  

scholarly journals Illegal migrant Basotho women in South Africa: Exposure to vulnerability in domestic services

2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mosiuoa B. Makhata ◽  
Maake J. Masango
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Domestic Service ◽  
Illegal Migration ◽  
Illegal Migrant ◽  
Illegal Migrants ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
Essential Services ◽  
Working And Living Conditions ◽  
The Church

The illegal migration of Basotho women to South Africa in order to render domestic service is alarming because they are subjected to harsh treatment. This is a pastoral and theological concern for the church. As migrants, their struggle begins from the household circumstances that often force them to leave and seek job opportunities undocumented or without following prescribed migration procedures. They are then subjected to migration processes and procedures: for example, corruption and bribery by migration officers and illegal dealers (lirurubele). The working and living conditions in South Africa are often unconducive for illegal migrants. As economic and illegal migrants, they are often considered as lesser by prejudiced employers who treat them inhumanely. Accessing essential services also imposes a significant threat to their lives.Contribution: Through this study, the article will reveal the vulnerability faced by illegal migrant Basotho women as domestic workers in South Africa.

Paradoxical infrastructures of asylum: Notes on the rise and fall of tent camps in Denmark

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zachary Whyte ◽  
Rebecca Campbell ◽  
Heidi Overgaard
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Symbolic Politics ◽  
Violent Behaviour ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Asylum Policy ◽  
Migration Management ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Global North

AbstractAsylum policies in the Global North have increasingly turned towards populist policies of deterrence, as states attempt to make themselves seem as unattractive as possible to would-be asylum seekers. This article examines one such case: the tent camps for asylum seekers that were hastily erected in Denmark in early 2016. However, while the tent camps surely are an instance of symbolic politics, we argue that to understand their daily operation, attention must also be paid to their infrastructural qualities. Drawing on two months of fieldwork at a tent camp in Næstved, this article examines the ways in which asylum policy and infrastructure interact to shape the daily lives and interactions of camp residents and staff. We propose two paradoxical frames for the analysis, which we term ‘spectacular obscurity’ and ‘successful failure’. The tent camps were trumpeted as symbolic politics, while their daily operation remained obscured, only to burst in to scandal as reports emerged of threatening and violent behaviour on the part of the staff. The tent camps’ infrastructure was constantly failing, as both material and social support broke down, but at the same time these failures successfully formed the basis for the everyday interactions that structured life in the camps. We conclude by questioning the effect of the policies of deterrence as mediated through particular infrastructures, suggesting that the materialities of the tent camps played a more significant role than supposed by policy makers, and that paradoxes of infrastructure provide a useful perspective through which to analyse migration management more broadly.

scholarly journals THE INTEROPERABILITY OF EUROPEAN INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR BORDER AND MIGRATION MANAGEMENT AND FOR ENSURING SECURITY

2019 ◽  
pp. 195
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Tomaszycki
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Technical Aspect ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Illegal Migration ◽  
Internal Security ◽  
Migration Management ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Terrorist Acts ◽  
Border Controls ◽  
The Eu

The European Union has been exposed to an increase in illegal migration in recent years. With the migration, the threat of terrorist acts increased, which contributed to reducing the sense of internal security of citizens. The EU citizens expect more effective external border controls and more efficient migration management. Such challenges are addressed by the interoperability of European information systems for border management and migration, as well as ensuring security of the EU. A key element of interoperability is the adaptation of current systems and the development of new ones, especially in the technical aspect. In addition to legal, organizational and logistic activities, it is a key element of the entire system of activities of European institutions and agencies.

scholarly journals The Migration State in the Global South: Nationalizing, Developmental, and Neoliberal Models of Migration Management

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Adamson ◽  
Gerasimos Tsourapas
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Global South ◽  
Current Version ◽  
Liberal Democracies ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Migration Management ◽  
Migration Research ◽  
Management Regimes ◽  
Global North ◽  
Management Policies

How do states in the Global South manage cross-border migration? This article identifies Hollifield’s “migration state” as a useful tool for comparative analysis yet notes that in its current version the concept is limited, given its focus on economic immigration in advanced liberal democracies. We suggest a framework for extending the “migration state” concept by introducing a typology of nationalizing, developmental, and neoliberal migration management regimes. The article explains each type and provides illustrative examples drawn from a range of case studies. To conclude, it discusses the implications of this analysis for comparative migration research, including the additional light it sheds on the migration management policies of states in the Global North.

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