TY - JOUR

T1 - Logistical Borderscapes

T2 - Politics and Mediation of Mobile Labor in Germany after the "Summer of Migration"

AU - Altenried, Moritz

AU - Bojadžijev, Manuela

AU - Höfler, Leif

AU - Mezzadra, Sandro

AU - Wallis, Mira

PY - 2018/4/1

Y1 - 2018/4/1

N2 - This article investigates the governmental measures and policies adopted by Germany in the wake of the “long summer of migration” of 2015 to put refugees to work. Starting with a discussion of the autonomy of migration approach against the background of the multiple transformations and crises of the European border regime, the authors focus on shifting paradigms in the management of labor mobility. A short review of the emerging field of “critical logistics studies” allows them to single out a process of “logistification” of migration regimes, according to a “delivery” rationality instantiated by the policy goal of a “just-in-time and to-the-point” migration. This hypothesis is tested with respect to Germany on the basis of research conducted by the authors in Berlin, particularly focusing on the roles played by a complex system and infrastructure of intermediation to manage the “integration” of refugees into the labor market.

AB - This article investigates the governmental measures and policies adopted by Germany in the wake of the “long summer of migration” of 2015 to put refugees to work. Starting with a discussion of the autonomy of migration approach against the background of the multiple transformations and crises of the European border regime, the authors focus on shifting paradigms in the management of labor mobility. A short review of the emerging field of “critical logistics studies” allows them to single out a process of “logistification” of migration regimes, according to a “delivery” rationality instantiated by the policy goal of a “just-in-time and to-the-point” migration. This hypothesis is tested with respect to Germany on the basis of research conducted by the authors in Berlin, particularly focusing on the roles played by a complex system and infrastructure of intermediation to manage the “integration” of refugees into the labor market.

KW - Cultural studies

KW - Sociology

KW - migration

KW - logistics

KW - European border and mobility regime

KW - mobile labor

KW - Germany

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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/9feac8ff-32e3-3a5b-a300-176517f0a465/

U2 - 10.1215/00382876-4374845

DO - 10.1215/00382876-4374845

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85047632866

VL - 117

SP - 291

EP - 312

JO - South Atlantic Quarterly

JF - South Atlantic Quarterly

SN - 0038-2876

IS - 2

ER -