Externalized Within, Everyday Bordering Processes Affecting Undocumented Moroccans in the Borderlands of Ceuta and Melilla, Spain
In: Journal of borderlands studies, S. 1-20
ISSN: 2159-1229
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In: Journal of borderlands studies, S. 1-20
ISSN: 2159-1229
In: International migration: quarterly review, Band 61, Heft 3, S. 404-406
ISSN: 1468-2435
In: Social policy and society: SPS ; a journal of the Social Policy Association, Band 20, Heft 3, S. 475-486
ISSN: 1475-3073
This article examines how Comorian pregnant women in Mayotte, a French overseas department in the Indian Ocean, came to embody an unwanted presence as irregular migrants due to their children's and their own potential claims to belonging, while they are entitled by law to access perinatal and maternal care. This article argues that framing undocumented pregnant women as a threat led to significant shortcomings in perinatal care delivery and that those shortages in turn worsened access to healthcare services for the Mahoran-French population as well, exacerbating feelings of resentment towards Comorians. Drawing on this case-study, the article foregrounds the malleability of the CARIN criteria (Control, Attitude, Reciprocity, Identity and Need), a theoretical tool to analyse ideas related to deservingness, by demonstrating how actors re-think the meanings of 'identity', 'control', 'attitude' and 'need' and assign different weights to them in the context of a dominant frame of undeservingness.
In: International political sociology, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 272-290
ISSN: 1749-5687
AbstractDrawing on Foucauldian biopolitics, Max Weber's and Hannah Arendt's understandings of bureaucracy, and Achille Mbembe's theoretical insights into necropolitical power, I propose the notion of humanitarian bureaucracy to account for the involvement of medical personnel in the summary deportations of pregnant Comorian women in Mayotte, a French overseas department in the Indian Ocean. In addition to their usual consultations, hospital midwives are asked to assess the health of pregnant women arrested at sea in order to state whether they can be lawfully detained, while deportations happen within hours owing to the specificities of this postcolonial migration regime. The notion of humanitarian bureaucracy traces how a series of bureaucratic acts, duly sanctioned by qualified professionals, performs a minimal and fragmented biopolitical surveillance that neutralizes the question of responsibility and rejects the racialized Other into a liminal space between failing to "make live" and avoiding to "let die." The article argues that humanitarian bureaucracy represents an ambivalent power, stemming from biopolitics yet producing necropolitics through processes of racialization. The article draws on three months of fieldwork conducted in Mayotte in 2017 and analyzes midwives' discourses and bureaucratic practices as materialized by the medical certificates they deliver in the context of these assessments.
In: Journal of ethnic and migration studies: JEMS, Band 46, Heft 9, S. 1809-1827
ISSN: 1469-9451
In: Critical sociology, Band 41, Heft 6, S. 993-995
ISSN: 1569-1632
In: The journal of North African studies, Band 20, Heft 4, S. 522-539
ISSN: 1743-9345
In: Transfer: the European review of labour and research ; quarterly review of the European Trade Union Institute, Band 21, Heft 1, S. 119-121
ISSN: 1996-7284
In: Social policy and society: SPS ; a journal of the Social Policy Association, Band 20, Heft 3, S. 436-439
ISSN: 1475-3073
In: Social policy and society: SPS ; a journal of the Social Policy Association, Band 20, Heft 3, S. 531-532
ISSN: 1475-3073
In: Social policy and society: SPS ; a journal of the Social Policy Association, Band 20, Heft 3, S. 440-451
ISSN: 1475-3073
This 'state-of-the art' article on the role of deservingness in governing migrants' access to social services situates our themed section's contribution to the literature at the intersection between the study of street-level bureaucracy and practices of internal bordering through social policy. Considering the increasing relevance of migration control post-entry, we review the considerations that guide the local delivery of social services. Among others, moral ideas about a claimant's worthiness to receive social benefits and services guide policy implementation. But while ideas of deservingness help to understand how perceptions of migrants' claiming play out in practice, we observe limited use of the concept in street-level bureaucracy research. Drawing on theorisations from welfare attitudinal research, we demonstrate the salience of deservingness attitudes in understanding the dynamics of local social service delivery to migrant clients.