Navigating the European Migration Regime : Male Migrants, Interrupted Journeys and Precarious Lives.
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC- ND Anna Wyss' insightful account of male migrants' journeys around Europe brings new perspectives to the European migration crisis and masculinity issues.
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| Language: | English |
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Bristol :
Bristol University Press,
2022.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Global Migration and Social Change Series
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- Series Preface: The Unwanted of the European Migration Regime
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- Interrupted journeys within Europe: what this book is (not) about
- Navigating the European migration regime
- Migrants' tactics within spaces of asymmetrical negotiation
- Naming and categorising people on the move
- On mobile and not so mobile research methods
- How borders permeate research relationships and knowledge production
- Outline of the book
- 2 Intricate Migration Policies in a Heterogeneous Europe
- Excursus 1: Italy - being invisible to the state
- Excursus 2: Into legality - entering 'asylum' in Switzerland
- Excursus 3: The Dublin Regulation
- Excursus 4: Re-entering illegality - the case of 'non-removed persons'
- Excursus 5: The heterogeneity of Europe - a pathway into legality in Italy
- Concluding remarks
- 3 Navigating Discourses: Masculinities, Racialisation and Vulnerabilities
- Constructing the 'undeserving other'
- Gendering the 'undeserving other'
- Impact of gendered and racialised images on migrants' lived experiences
- Everyday victimisation, suspicion and criminalisation
- Ambivalent self-representations
- Contested intimate lives
- Concluding remarks
- 4 Navigating Migration Control: Deromanticising Mobility
- The downsides of mobility
- Migration governance through mobility
- Between mobilisation and immobilisation
- The Dublin Regulation: between preventing and encouraging mobility
- Moving on in order to stay
- Securing access to support structures
- Going into hiding
- The effects of short-term mobility on the lived experiences of migrants
- Longing for stillness
- Wasting time
- Concluding remarks
- 5 Navigating Uncertainty: Illegibility, Rumours and Hope.
- Unpredictability and arbitrariness of law implementation
- Magic and illegibility within the migration regime
- Access to information
- Many hands and laws
- The law in books versus the law in practice
- Rumours: hopes and fears
- Knowledge transfer and the fragility of social ties
- Decision-making
- Hopes and fears: clutching at straws
- Subversive power of rumours
- Concluding remarks
- 6 Navigating the Law: Tactics of Avoidance and Appropriation
- Migrants with a precarious legal status and the law
- Tactics to circumvent law implementation
- Eluding migration control
- Being imperceptible
- Tactics of appropriating law
- Putting law enforcement on hold: prolonging legality
- Paperwork
- Marriage as the last option
- Concluding remarks
- 7 Conclusion: Endurance and Exhaustion
- Interrupted journeys - disrupted control
- Enduring long-term legal precarity
- States' efforts to turn migrants' endurance into exhaustion
- The invisibility of and indifference towards silent forms of suffering
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Back Cover.