Forced Migrants as ‘Illegal’ Migrants

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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.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies
EditorsElena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Gil Loescher, Kathy Long, Nando Sigona
Number of pages13
Place of PublicationOxford
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date04.08.2014
Pages188-200
ISBN (print)9780199652433
ISBN (electronic)9780191755705
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Publication statusPublished - 04.08.2014
Externally publishedYes

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