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Pfirter, Luca

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Pfirter, Luca
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doctorant
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luca.pfirter@unine.ch
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https://libra.unine.ch/handle/123456789/1183
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0000-0002-8505-503X

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  • Publication
    Accès libre
    Governing poverty and migration in European nation-states – keywords revisited
    (2024)
    Lisa Marie Borrelli
    ;
    Achermann, Christin 
    ;
    Niragire Nirere, Doris 
    ;
    Pfirter, Luca 
    This article introduces a collaborative publication exploring the intricate interplay between poverty governance, migration control, and welfare provision. Adopting a ‘keywords’ approach, we investigate the terminology and concepts around which academic discussions revolve when addressing poverty and migration. Central to this examination is the figure of the ‘poor migrant’, whose experiences of inclusion and exclusion intersect along lines of race, gender, and legal status. Using an intersectional lens, the publication dissects key terms and concepts : Welfare State, Welfare Governance, Citizenship, Solidarity and Deservingness, Suspicion and Surveillance, Discipline, and Banishment. We thus aim to conceptualise and critically discuss the constant renegotiation of state power and the nation-state induced in ex/inclusionary aspects of welfare and migration policies and law. The contribution reveals how notions of belonging shape access to rights and services, particularly along racialized and classist lines. Moreover, it explores how migration policies exacerbate scrutiny and exclusion faced by non-citizen populations within contemporary welfare systems.
  • Publication
    Accès libre
    Welfare governance
    (2024)
    Achermann, Christin 
    ;
    Anita Heindlmaier
    ;
    Sandra Mantu
    ;
    Pfirter, Luca 
    This article connects to broader discussions on governance and neoliberal individualisation and advances how activation policies push a focus on labour market participation no matter what the cost – leaving non-citizens vulnerable to exploitative working conditions and termination of their stay permits if they do not participate. This goes along with a responsibilisation of the ‘poor migrant’, individualising their failure to secure their living that provides crucial momentum to drive them out of the national territory. Pointing to the broader context of intersectional (especially gendered and racialised) inequalities, this contribution concludes that precarity (both material and status-wise) is one of the key results characterising the current welfare governance of non-citizens.
  • Publication
    Accès libre
    “For just decisions we need you!”: Relational decision‐making and the bureaucratic exclusion of “poor others”
    (2023)
    Christin Achermann 
    ;
    Lisa Marie Borrelli
    ;
    Luca Pfirter 
    Focusing on the intersections between bureaucracies of welfare and migration control, this article interrogates how decisions about the future stay of non‐citizens receiving social assistance are made in a relational interplay of different offices and actors in Switzerland. We investigate how relational decision‐making is fundamental in crafting legitimate decisions about the exclusion of “poor others.” Based on ethnographic fieldwork with diverse actors involved in migration control enforcement and welfare policy implementation, this article contributes to understanding how legal regulations turn into social reality. We show that a multitude of actors, including social services, inform and affect migration control‐related decisions. This relationality co‐produces the outcome and legitimacy of the final decision taken by the respective migration office. In turn, the actors’ fields of action, values, and procedures are themselves affected by this relational involvement. The relational character of decision‐making therefore involves an expansion of migration control into other bureaucratic and social fields that co‐construct legitimate decisions concerning the deportation of “poor others” and create the illusion of a “coherent state,” invisibilizing structural inequalities.
  • Publication
    Accès libre
    What Happens When Migration Control and Social Assistance Get Entangled?
    (2022)
    Achermann, Christin 
    ;
    Borrelli, Lisa Marie
    ;
    Stefanie Tamara Kurt
    ;
    Niragire Nirere, Doris 
    ;
    Pfirter, Luca 
    Messages for Decision-Makers Independence from social assistance is now a preponderant criterion to assess the legally required “integration” of foreign nationals in Switzerland. — The implementation of the legislation that targets foreign nationals receiving social assistance intertwines the inherently different competences and objectives of each administration and makes their procedures more complex. — For recipients of social assistance, this complexification can lead to potentially contradictory expectations and advice. Such mixed messages can generate further economic and legal status precarization.
  • Publication
    Accès libre
    (Un)Conditional Welfare? Tensions Between Welfare Rights and Migration Control in Swiss Case Law
    (2021-3-12)
    Borrelli, Lisa Marie
    ;
    Kurt, Stefanie
    ;
    Achermann, Christin 
    ;
    Pfirter, Luca 
    This analysis of Swiss Federal Supreme Court judgements shows the coupling of welfare and migration control. Foreign nationals depending on social assistance might face the withdrawal of their residence permits. We show how the conveyed legal logics create conditionality of rights and a differentiation of (non-)citizens. The judgements individualise social assistance dependence and follow a neoliberal logic of economic participation. They establish rationalities which reinforce politics of belonging and welfare chauvinism.