The Production of Precarity in Denmark’s Asylum Regime

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 413-439
Author(s):  
Annika Lindberg
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Policy Regime ◽  
Asylum Policy ◽  
Immigration Control ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Temporary Protection ◽  
Migration Control ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Undeserving Poor

Abstract The special issue discusses the intersections between social welfare and migration control, as well as how stratified access to welfare services is used to govern ‘unwanted’ groups. This article explores these intersections in Denmark’ deterrence-oriented asylum policy regime, analysing the discourses and practices whereby people seeking protection are constructed as ‘undeserving’ poor. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in different sites of enforcement of Denmark’s asylum regime as well as interviews with street-level workers and people who sought asylum in Denmark, I trace how the Danish deterrence approach operates through the production of poverty and precarity among people seeking protection in asylum reception camps, deportation-oriented integration programmes, and finally, deportation camps. I show how the Danish welfare state, as a result of the merging of external and internal bordering practices, produces a condition of precarity and (non)deportability that extends from the asylum camps to those awarded temporary protection status. Hence, while the deterrence-oriented Danish policy regime has not proven ‘effective’ from the point of view of immigration control, it has served to reinforced a dualised, hierarchically ordered welfare rights’ regime that gradually erodes the rights and life opportunities of unwanted noncitizen ‘others’.

Editorial: Governing the Poor – Migration and Poverty

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-385
Author(s):  
Lisa Marie Borrelli ◽  
Yann Bochsler
Keyword(s):  
Welfare Recipients ◽  
State Agencies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Significant Control ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Migration Control ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
Policy Mechanisms

Abstract In contrast to the nexus between welfare and migration control, the link between migration and poverty (or rather the perception of poverty), has not received the same amount of political interest, but also public and scholarly attention. Yet, there are multiple ways in which migrants are rendered or perceived as poor in receiving states after having migrated. Hence, this special issue addresses the intersection of migration and poverty. The contributions cover various socio-legal, political and discursive aspects of how state institutions and non-state agencies address, and how poor citizens and migrant individuals in the broadest sense deal with, precariousness and discrimination in the states where they have settled or within which they have moved. In public and political discourse, migrant individuals are often portrayed as underserving, needy and dependent on the ‘receiving states’. Yet, what is often overlooked is how this assumed dependency is constructed by policies and laws, encouraged by media practices and everyday street-level implementation, to the degree that it demonises the foreign ‘other’, accused of misusing welfare assistance. At the same time, we find similar framings regarding marginalised citizens, such as welfare recipients, which discloses the moral character of social policies and a hierarchy of deservingness-recognition. Within the special issue, we critically discuss how such representations and policy mechanisms allow for the discriminatory circumscription of rights and services of the ‘poor’ and migrants that are deeply embedded in welfare chauvinist attitudes, causing significant control and surveillance by the state.

Organisational ethnography as a project of unease

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-247
Author(s):  
Annika Lindberg ◽  
Tobias Georg Eule
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Peer Feedback ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Working Through ◽  
Migration Control

PurposeThe article examines situations of unease during ethnographic fieldwork with migration control agents in Sweden, Denmark and Germany. It shows how these “tests” are both methodologically challenging and analytically valuable, and how they need to be addressed properly. The article concludes a special issue on “passing the test in organisational ethnography”.Design/methodology/approachThe article is based on ethnographic research with migration control agents, carried out by both authors in Denmark and Sweden (Annika) and Germany (Tobias). However, rather than presenting the main results from this research, the article focuses on the tests encountered during the research.FindingsThe article has two main findings. First, it provides an open typology of tests. Second, it proposes four ways in which ethnographers could address these tests: acknowledging them methodologically, working through them personally and collectively, unpacking them analytically and preparing others in teaching and peer-feedback.Research limitations/implicationsThe article encourages ethnographers to engage reflexively with fieldwork challenges, and provides a framework for doing so.Originality/valueThe article presents contributes to the current debate on organisational ethnography with recommendations of how to engage with tests in ethnographic fieldwork.

Syrian Crisis and Migration

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 181-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pinar Yazgan ◽  
Deniz Eroglu Utku ◽  
Ibrahim Sirkeci
Keyword(s):  
Human Mobility ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Syrian Crisis ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Europe Today ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Near Future

With the growing insurrections in Syria in 2011, an exodus in large numbers have emerged. The turmoil and violence have caused mass migration to destinations both within the region and beyond. The current "refugee crisis" has escalated sharply and its impact is widening from neighbouring countries toward Europe. Today, the Syrian crisis is the major cause for an increase in displacement and the resultant dire humanitarian situation in the region. Since the conflict shows no signs of abating in the near future, there is a constant increase in the number of Syrians fleeing their homes. However, questions on the future impact of the Syrian crisis on the scope and scale of this human mobility are still to be answered. As the impact of the Syrian crisis on host countries increases, so does the demand for the analyses of the needs for development and protection in these countries. In this special issue, we aim to bring together a number of studies examining and discussing human mobility in relation to the Syrian crisis.

Narrating Society: Enacting ‘Immigrant’ Characters through Negotiating, Naturalization, and Forgetting

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanne Boersma
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Work ◽  
Immigrant Integration ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Global Perspectives ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Media And Communication

This article scrutinizes how ‘immigrant’ characters of perpetual arrival are enacted in the social scientific work of immigrant integration monitoring. Immigrant integration research produces narratives in which characters—classified in highly specific, contingent ways as ‘immigrants’—are portrayed as arriving and never as having arrived. On the basis of ethnographic fieldwork at social scientific institutions and networks in four Western European countries, this article analyzes three practices that enact the characters of arrival narratives: negotiating, naturalizing, and forgetting. First, it shows how negotiating constitutes objects of research while at the same time a process of hybridization is observed among negotiating scientific and governmental actors. Second, a naturalization process is analyzed in which slippery categories become fixed and self-evident. Third, the practice of forgetting involves the fading away of contingent and historical circumstances of the research and specifically a dispensation of ‘native’ or ‘autochthonous’ populations. Consequently, the article states how some people are considered rightful occupants of ‘society’ and others are enacted to travel an infinite road toward an occupied societal space. Moreover, it shows how enactments of arriving ‘immigrant’ characters have performative effects in racially differentiating national populations and hence in narrating society. This article is part of the Global Perspectives, Media and Communication special issue on “Media, Migration, and Nationalism,” guest-edited by Koen Leurs and Tomohisa Hirata.

Race, Criminal Justice, and Migration Control

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Conceptual Analysis ◽  
Its Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
Migration Control ◽  
Key Sites ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Way

In an era of mass mobility, those who are permitted to migrate and those who are criminalized, controlled, and prohibited from migrating are heavily patterned by race. By placing race at the centre of its analysis, this volume brings together fourteen essays that examine, question, and explain the growing intersection between criminal justice and migration control. Through the lens of race, we see how criminal justice and migration enmesh in order to exclude, stop, and excise racialized citizens and non-citizens from societies across the world within, beyond, and along borders. Neatly organized in four parts, the book begins with chapters that present a conceptual analysis of race, borders, and social control, moving to the institutions that make up and shape the criminal justice and migration complex. The remaining chapters are convened around the key sites where criminal justice and migration control intersect: policing, courts, and punishment. Together the volume presents a critical and timely analysis of how race shapes and complicates mobility and how racism is enabled and reanimated when criminal justice and migration control coalesce. Race and the meaning of race in relation to citizenship and belonging are excavated throughout the chapters presented in the book, thereby transforming the way we think about migration.

scholarly journals “Cognitive Linguistics: Looking back, looking forward”

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dagmar Divjak ◽  
Natalia Levshina ◽  
Jane Klavan
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Past ◽  
European Data ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The Social ◽  
Theory Of Language ◽  
Looking Back ◽  
West European

AbstractSince its conception, Cognitive Linguistics as a theory of language has been enjoying ever increasing success worldwide. With quantitative growth has come qualitative diversification, and within a now heterogeneous field, different – and at times opposing – views on theoretical and methodological matters have emerged. The historical “prototype” of Cognitive Linguistics may be described as predominantly of mentalist persuasion, based on introspection, specialized in analysing language from a synchronic point of view, focused on West-European data (English in particular), and showing limited interest in the social and multimodal aspects of communication. Over the past years, many promising extensions from this prototype have emerged. The contributions selected for the Special Issue take stock of these extensions along the cognitive, social and methodological axes that expand the cognitive linguistic object of inquiry across time, space and modality.

Pathology and Pathobiology of Pulmonary Hypertension

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (05) ◽  
pp. 571-584 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Dorfmüller ◽  
Christophe Guignabert
Keyword(s):  
Pulmonary Hypertension ◽  
Vascular Inflammation ◽  
Right Heart Catheterization ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Heart Catheterization ◽  
Pulmonary Endothelium ◽  
Hemodynamic State ◽  
Pulmonary Arterial ◽  
Genetic And Environmental Factors ◽  
And Migration

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a hemodynamic state defined by a mean pulmonary artery pressure ≥ 25 mm Hg during resting right heart catheterization. PH can result from precapillary (arterial) or postcapillary (venous) pathophysiological mechanisms. Interestingly, recent PH pathology has shown that pulmonary arterial or pulmonary venous remodelling are rarely independent phenomena, but frequently occur in combined fashion in lungs from patients suffering from different forms of PH, including pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). In PAH, it is now becoming clear that aberrant signals present in vessel wall microenvironment, which is largely orchestrated by dysfunctional pulmonary endothelial cells, are key contributors of the pulmonary vascular remodeling process, fostering proliferation, and survival and migration of resident pulmonary vascular cells such as smooth muscle cells, myofibroblasts, and pericytes. In addition, both genetic and environmental factors are also critical in the development of pulmonary vascular inflammation and chronic impairment of the pulmonary endothelium. This article outlines the current understanding of this disease from the point of view of pathology and pathobiology.

scholarly journals Interactions of Ruddlesden-Popper Phases and Migration-Induced Field-Stabilized Polar Phase in Strontium Titanate

Crystals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 693
Author(s):  
Christian Ludt ◽  
Elena Ovchinnikova ◽  
Anton Kulikov ◽  
Dmitri Novikov ◽  
Sibylle Gemming ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Strontium Titanate ◽  
Density Functional ◽  
Surface Region ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Polar Phase ◽  
Near Surface ◽  
Atomic Displacements ◽  
Induced Field ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Novel Concept

This work focuses on the validation of a possible connection of the known Ruddlesden-Popper (RP) phases and the novel concept of the migration-induced field-stabilized polar (MFP) phase. To study this subject, model structures of RP phases in bulk strontium titanate are analyzed by means of density functional theory (DFT). The obtained geometries are compared to experimental MFP data. Good agreement can be found concerning atomic displacements in the pm range and lattice strain inferred by the RP phases. Looking at the energy point of view, the defect structures are on the convex hull of the Gibb’s free energy. Although the dynamics to form the discussed defect models are not addressed in detail, the interplay and stability of the described defect model will add to the possible structure scenarios within the near-surface region of strontium titanate. As a result, it can be suggested that RP phases generally favor the MFP formation.

Kinematic interpretation in the prestack depth‐migrated domain

Geophysics ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 1226-1237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Apostoiu‐Marin ◽  
Andreas Ehinger
Keyword(s):  
Signal To Noise Ratio ◽  
Velocity Model ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Prestack Depth Migration ◽  
Depth Migration ◽  
Velocity Models ◽  
Time Domain Data ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Point To Point ◽  
Homogeneous Media

Prestack depth migration can be used in the velocity model estimation process if one succeeds in interpreting depth events obtained with erroneous velocity models. The interpretational difficulty arises from the fact that migration with erroneous velocity does not yield the geologically correct reflector geometries and that individual migrated images suffer from poor signal‐to‐noise ratio. Moreover, migrated events may be of considerable complexity and thus hard to identify. In this paper, we examine the influence of wrong velocity models on the output of prestack depth migration in the case of straight reflector and point diffractor data in homogeneous media. To avoid obscuring migration results by artifacts (“smiles”), we use a geometrical technique for modeling and migration yielding a point‐to‐point map from time‐domain data to depth‐domain data. We discover that strong deformation of migrated events may occur even in situations of simple structures and small velocity errors. From a kinematical point of view, we compare the results of common‐shot and common‐offset migration. and we find that common‐offset migration with erroneous velocity models yields less severe image distortion than common‐shot migration. However, for any kind of migration, it is important to use the entire cube of migrated data to consistently interpret in the prestack depth‐migrated domain.

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