Forced Migrants as ‘Illegal’ Migrants
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Forced Migrants as ‘Illegal’ Migrants. / Scheel, Stephan; Squire, Vicki.
The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies. Hrsg. / Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh; Gil Loescher; Kathy Long; Nando Sigona. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014. S. 188-200.Publikation: Beiträge in Sammelwerken › Kapitel › begutachtet
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Forced Migrants as ‘Illegal’ Migrants
AU - Scheel, Stephan
AU - Squire, Vicki
PY - 2014/8/4
Y1 - 2014/8/4
N2 - This chapter examines how many of those refugees and asylum seekers making transnational journeys are classified as irregular migrants by states who seek to make such movements illegitimate. It considers the framing, targeting, and active production of ‘forced migrants as illegal migrants’ in the literature and highlights the importance of the labels of ‘forced’ and ‘illegal’ in the governing of migration. It discusses the concept of ‘figures of migration’, which is based on the notion that categorizations of people on the move such as the ‘refugee’ or the ‘illegal migrant’ do not represent distinct social groups sharing characteristic features. Furthermore, it looks at how academic knowledge production might intervene in the contested politics of mobility in order to refuse, destabilize, or subvert the terms by which the rendering of ‘forced migrants as illegal migrants’ has become unambiguous.
AB - This chapter examines how many of those refugees and asylum seekers making transnational journeys are classified as irregular migrants by states who seek to make such movements illegitimate. It considers the framing, targeting, and active production of ‘forced migrants as illegal migrants’ in the literature and highlights the importance of the labels of ‘forced’ and ‘illegal’ in the governing of migration. It discusses the concept of ‘figures of migration’, which is based on the notion that categorizations of people on the move such as the ‘refugee’ or the ‘illegal migrant’ do not represent distinct social groups sharing characteristic features. Furthermore, it looks at how academic knowledge production might intervene in the contested politics of mobility in order to refuse, destabilize, or subvert the terms by which the rendering of ‘forced migrants as illegal migrants’ has become unambiguous.
KW - Sociology
U2 - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199652433.013.0017
DO - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199652433.013.0017
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9780199652433
SP - 188
EP - 200
BT - The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies
A2 - Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Elena
A2 - Loescher, Gil
A2 - Long, Kathy
A2 - Sigona, Nando
PB - Oxford University Press
CY - Oxford
ER -