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The ‘permanentification’ of a regime of crisis: reinforced and enduring bordering and normalization of right-wing narratives
In public and political discourses, 2015 was constructed as the peak of a ‘refugee crisis.’ While a crisis is supposed to be temporary by definition, it seems that many references to migration have since been associated with the label ‘crisis.’ We argue that a ‘permanentification’ of a regime of crisis has been taking place over the last years. We use the term ‘permanentification’ in the sense of a process by which a state of exception is normalized and enduring. This can be observed in two key dimensions, each with significant consequences: on the one hand, exceptional measures have become routinized, institutionalized, and normalized; on the other hand, right-wing narratives have been mainstreamed to an unprecedented degree. Taken together, these dynamics reinforce existing necropolitics, institutionalize violence, and deepen exclusion.
La dette sacralisée : Hiérarchies et moralités des dettes des particuliers en Suisse
COVID-19 and the Search for Continuity in the Swiss Asylum Regime
How are public health and asylum governance connected? During the COVID-19 pandemic, migration authorities took measures to maintain a certain continuity in asylum governance in Switzerland. By studying the pandemic’s impact on the asylum regime, we not only see the importance of uninterrupted movement to it, but we also realize that the historical sanitary bordering on migranticized groups persists.
Street-Level Workers and Unaccompanied Minors: Between Vulnerability and Suspicion
Focusing on practices and representations mobilized by street-level workers in the management of North African unaccompanied minor migrants (UAMs) in Geneva, I take a closer look at the everyday assessment and production of UAMs’ deservingness in the context of humanitarianism. I show the importance of doubt and of perceived vulnerability in the informal evaluation process of UAMs’ right for protection. I further demonstrate how the social construction of childhood, race, and gender influence street-level workers’ perceptions.
Towards a Novel Mobility Regime? The Legacies of the COVID-19 Pandemic Regarding the Governance of Human Movement
Street-Level Workers and Unaccompanied Minors: Between Vulnerability and Suspicion
Abstract: Focusing on practices and representations mobilized by street-level workers in the management of North African unaccompanied minor migrants (UAMs) in Geneva, I take a closer look at the everyday assessment and production of UAMs’ deservingness in the context of humanitarianism. I show the importance of doubt and of perceived vulnerability in the informal evaluation process of UAMs’ right for protection. I further demonstrate how the social construction of childhood, race, and gender influence street-level workers’ perceptions. Résumé : Dans cet article j’étudie les pratiques et les représentations mobilisées par les « street-le- vel workers » dans la gestion des migrant·es mineur·es non-accompagné·es (MNA) maghrébin·es à Genève. Dans le contexte de l’humanitarisme, j’explore la production quotidienne de la légitimité des MNA. Je montre l’importance du doute et de la vulnérabilité dans le processus informel d’évaluation du droit à la protection des MNA, et je révèle l’impact de la construc- tion sociale de l’enfance, de la race et du genre sur les perceptions de ces professionel∙les. Zusammenfassung: Der vorliegende Artikel untersucht die Praktiken und Repräsentationen die von “street-level workers” bei der Betreuung von unbegleiteten maghrebinischen Minder- jährigen (MNAs) in Genf mobilisiert werden. Ich werfe einen Blick auf die humanitaristische Herstellung der Legitimität von MNAs und erörtere die Bedeutung von Verdächtigung und Verwundbarkeit im informellen Beurteilungsprozess des Rechts auf Schutz. Ausserdem zeige ich, wie die soziale Konstruktion von Kindheit, Ethnizität und Geschlecht die Wahrnehmun- gen der Berufstätigen beeinflusst.