Hostile Environments: State Infrastructural Power and the Exclusion of Unauthorized Migrants in Western Europe
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“Immigration enforcement” often calls to mind border policing or efforts to deport undocumented migrants. Yet, governments also increasingly employ strategies of exclusion – denying migrants access to public and private resources in the hope of encouraging them to voluntarily leave and deterring future arrivals. This paper evaluates the implementation of these measures in three European countries as a way to improve our understanding of the operation of state power. Drawing on and developing Mann’s concept of infrastructural power, I show how implementation requires both administrative coordination and linkages to social groups – qualities more present in some countries than others. The features of state power reflect preexisting administrative systems for population oversight, as well as the nature of industrial relations, both of which provide resources state officials redeploy for immigration control. In instituting these measures, officials augment their capacities for overseeing non-migrants as well, so that all citizens and denizens are subject to increased supervision.
Date:
4 March 2021, 14:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Hilary 2021)
Venue:
Zoom- See below for registration details
Speaker:
Kimberly Morgan
Organising department:
Department of Social Policy and Intervention
Organisers:
Dr Rossella Ciccia (University of Oxford),
Dr Marek Naczyk (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
communications@spi.ox.ac.uk
Hosts:
Dr Rossella Ciccia (University of Oxford),
Dr Marek Naczyk (University of Oxford)
Part of:
OISP Seminar Series: A New Dawn for Social Policy
Booking required?:
Not required
Booking url:
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Cost:
FREE
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Lani Fukada
