Irregular Migration: IMISCOE Short Reader (IMISCOE Research Series)

✍ Scribed by Maurizio Ambrosini, Minke H.J. Hajer

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 154
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This open access short reader provides an introduction to the theoretical debates regarding irregular migration and aims to bridge these theoretical debates to current empirical developments. It defines irregular migrants and irregular migration by discussing the wide variety of definitions and highlights the reasons for the presence of irregular immigrants in developed countries. The book provides an overview of the variation in policies regarding irregular migrants and elaborates on how irregular migration is facilitated and supported. It discusses the trends and dynamics between border enforcement, human smuggling/trafficking, and on the support irregular migrants obtain by citizens and civil society while residing in the EU. Last but not least, the book also focuses on the agency and political mobilization of irregular migrants. As such, it provides a great resource for everyone interested in learning more about irregular migration.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Understanding the Challenge of Irregular Migration
1.1 Human Mobility and the Reaffirmation of National Borders
1.2 Securitisation and Unwanted Immigration
1.3 The Issue of Terminology
1.4 The Issue of Numbers
1.5 The Structure of the Book
References
Chapter 2: Defining and Explaining Irregular Migration
2.1 Irregular Immigrants: A Popular Concept in Search of a Clear Definition
2.2 Explaining Irregular Immigration
2.2.1 Labour Markets
2.2.2 Globalisation and Human Mobility
2.2.3 Institutional Production of Illegality
2.2.4 Liberal Constraints
2.2.5 Difficulties and Costs of Removals
2.2.6 Immigrants’ Agency and Ethnic Networks
2.3 A Mirror of Societal Contradictions (Conclusion)
References
Chapter 3: The Political Challenge of Irregular Migration
3.1 Social Protection and Access to Welfare Services for Irregular Immigrants
3.2 Cities in the Spotlight
3.3 The Battleground of Immigration Governance
3.4 The Selective Treatment of Irregular Immigrants
3.5 A Contested and Dynamic Boundary (Conclusion)
References
Chapter 4: Responses and Solutions to Irregular Migration: Detention and Deportation Versus Regularisation
4.1 Deportation
4.2 Deportability and Undeportability
4.3 Detention
4.4 Voluntary Return and Soft Deportation
4.5 After Deportation
4.6 Pushbacks, Pullbacks, and ‘Pre-Arrival Deportation’
4.7 Pathways to Regularisation
4.8 Removal or Regularisation (Conclusion)
References
Chapter 5: Enabling and Supporting Irregular Migration
5.1 Actors Enabling Irregular Border Crossing Through Smuggling
5.2 NGOs and Irregular Border Crossing
5.3 Supporters of Irregular Migrants in Society
5.3.1 Civil Society
5.3.2 Co-ethnic Networks
5.3.3 Social Movements and Activist Networks
5.3.4 Municipalities
5.3.5 Employers, Medical Professionals and Legal Intermediaries
Employers
Medical Professionals
Legal Intermediaries
5.4 Reasons to Support Irregular Migrants
5.5 Supporters of Irregular Migrants Versus the State
5.6 Enabling Irregular Migration: Including the Excluded (Conclusion)
References
Chapter 6: Agency, Inclusion and Political Mobilisation of Irregular Migrants
6.1 The (Political) Agency of Irregular Migrants
6.2 Irregular Migrants and the Political Community
6.3 Political Mobilisation of Irregular Migrants
6.3.1 Opportunities for Inclusion
6.3.2 Challenges for Inclusion
6.3.3 Consequences of Inclusion
6.4 Agency, Inclusion, and Political Participation (Conclusion)
References
Chapter 7: Conclusion: Envisioning Better Governance of Irregular Migration
7.1 Beyond the Narrative of Invasion
7.2 Enforcement of Borders and Persistence of Irregular Migration
7.3 Selective Enforcement, Selective Tolerance
7.4 Debordering Solidarity
References