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- Anderson, Joseph Trawicki, 1986
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Managing labour migration in Malaysia: foreign workers and the challenges of 'control' beyond liberal democracies
- 2021
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Ingår i: Third World Quarterly. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0143-6597 .- 1360-2241. ; 42:1, s. 86-104
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines the issue of migration control in Malaysia. Despite the fact that the majority of the world's migratory movements are between countries in the Global South, the dominant focus of research on migration control has tended to be liberal democracies of the Global North. Here, focussing on a country which is a major destination for migrants in Southeast Asia, this paper examines the varied policies enacted by the Malaysian government in an effort to decrease the number of undocumented foreign workers. As Malaysia is known for its frequent migration policy shifts, this paper traces the many twists and turns in Malaysian policy in the period from 2011 to 2019. In doing so, the paper seeks to help build a better understanding of the complex and sometimes contradictory tools states use in attempting to manage migration. Here I find that some patterns emerge from Malaysia's use of a wide variety of policy instruments to reduce its population of undocumented foreign workers, but that ultimately these must be placed in the context of the overall economic reliance of Malaysia on foreign labour and its turbulent policies.
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- Anderson, Joseph Trawicki, 1986, et al.
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Numbers as "empty signifier" in Swedish migration policy
- 2022
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Ingår i: EISA 15th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, 1-4 September 2022.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Beginning in 2016, Sweden instituted a sweeping reform of its migration policies, severely limiting the rights given to migrants who had arrived seeking asylum. This policy change was clearly motivated by a desire to reduce the number of migrants arriving, yet by the time the law was passed, migrant numbers had already dropped dramatically. Even as this policy was widely criticized from many sectors in society and had negligible impact on the number of migrant arrivals, the law was renewed in 2019 and made permanent in 2021. What this has produced is a situation in which nuanced discussion of migration policy becomes impossible, as all negative impacts are justified by the focus on migrant numbers, even when the impacts on numbers in minimal. This study draws on an extensive review of governmental proposals, parliamentary debates, and written comments from government agencies and NGOs as part of Sweden’s remiss system from the laws in 2016, 2019, and 2021. Through this, the paper explores the social construction of migrant numbers, the politics of numbering, and the production of strategic ignorance in the context of migration policy processes.
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- Anderson, Joseph Trawicki, 1986, et al.
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Numbers vs. Everything Else: An Examination of Swedish Migration Policymaking
- 2022
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Ingår i: Nordic Migration Research Conference 2022.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Beginning in 2016, Sweden instituted a sweeping reform of its migration policies, severely limiting the rights given to migrants who had arrived seeking asylum. This policy change was clearly motivated by a desire to reduce the number of migrants arriving, yet by the time the law was passed, migrant numbers had already dropped dramatically. Even as this policy was widely criticized from many sectors in society and had negligible impact on the number of migrant arrivals, the law was renewed in 2019 and made permanent in 2021. What this has produced is a situation in which nuanced discussion of migration policy becomes impossible, as all negative impacts are justified by the focus on migrant numbers, even when the impacts on numbers in minimal. This study draws on an extensive review of governmental proposals, parliamentary debates, and written comments from government agencies and NGOs as part of Sweden’s remiss system from the laws in 2016, 2019, and 2021. Through this, the paper explores the social construction of migrant numbers, the politics of numbering, and the production of strategic ignorance in the context of migration policy processes.
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- Anderson, Joseph Trawicki, 1986
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The Migration Industry and the H-2 Visa in the United States: Employers, Labour Intermediaries, and the State
- 2019
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Ingår i: International Migration. - : Wiley. - 0020-7985 .- 1468-2435. ; 57:4, s. 121-135
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Research on the migration industry has demonstrated the wide variety of roles played by private actors in international migration. However, so far little of this work has attempted to quantitatively measure the size and composition of these industries within particular migration schemes. Using the case of the H-2 temporary working visa in the US, this article looks to better understand the prevalence, impact, and dynamics of the private labour intermediaries that offer services to US employers looking to hire workers from abroad. Using data from applications to hire foreign workers made to the US Department of Labor, this article finds that private intermediaries are extensively involved. Their broad inclusion raises questions of public and private authority in the visa programme, as the use of private intermediaries becomes necessary for employers to access and navigate the state institutions that oversee the programme. © 2019 The Author. International Migration © 2019 IOM
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- Anderson, Joseph Trawicki, 1986
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The Migration Industry in Managed Migration: Authority, Control and Guestworkers in the United States
- 2019
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis is an investigation into the private migration actors, also known as the migration industry, that have become ubiquitous within managed migration programs in the United States. From employers and visa agents to recruiters and law firms, a tremendous number of private actors have become embedded within modern migration programs. While generally not employed by state authorities, these private actors nonetheless play important roles throughout the state-sanctioned migration programs examined here. Therefore, based on an analysis of their particular roles and relationships, the aim of this study is to examine how the involvement of private actors within guestworker programs functions in practice and how it alters the ways in which sovereign prerogatives of control and authority over migrants are exercised. In doing so, it focuses in particular on the assemblages of authority and control over migration created through the complex interactions of public and private actors. Empirically, this project examines the H-2 visa, a temporary working visa in the United States as well as an attempt to create a similar ‘guestworker’ program in the state of Utah. Drawing on fieldwork as well as government documents and data, this project traces the roles and relationships of public and private actors. In doing so, it looks to see how certain functions of authority and control are exercised. Overall, this thesis develops a deeper understanding of the ways in which the migration industry functions in the context of managed migration programs. It concludes that the migration industry does not operate merely as a passive performer of or ancillary to state functions. Rather, the migration industry is deeply enmeshed within sovereign prerogatives over migration. Thus, what emerges is not a system in which processes are clearly public or private, but rather complex assemblages of authority and control over these managed migration programs that blur public/private distinctions.
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- Anderson, Joseph Trawicki, 1986, et al.
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The public and the private in guestworker schemes: examples from Malaysia and the U.S.
- 2019
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Ingår i: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. - 1369-183X .- 1469-9451. ; 45:7, s. 1207-1223
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- While discussions of state involvement in migration generally focus on restriction, states are actively involved in the promotion of labour migration through guestworker programmes, among other examples. While these programmes are state-sponsored, they often rely heavily on private actors in order to function. Drawing on the examples of the H-2 visa in the United States and the recruitment of foreign workers to Malaysia, this paper examines the common elements of state direction of migration combined with a focus on temporariness and an outsourcing of recruitment and supervision that are present in both guestworker schemes. In drawing on the geographically, economically, and politically distinct contexts of the U.S. and Malaysia we look to how these schemes contain a mixture of state and private authority which permits an especially potent form of control over the lives of guestworkers that is greater than what either state or private actors could produce individually. Such control raises important questions about the nature of public/private governance within migration more broadly.
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- Jern, Jessie, et al.
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Can male asylum seekers win the “vulnerability contest”? The racialized and gendered gaze of asylum officers in Sweden
- 2022
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Ingår i: EISA 15th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Athens 1-4 September 2022.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper seeks to contribute to the growing body of academic literature on the workings of gender and race in the asylum process. We are particularly interested in how the gendered and racialized gaze of asylum officers impacts their evaluation, and ultimately also their decisions, with regards to the protection needs of male asylum seekers. We build our analysis on official documents published by the Swedish Migration Agency coupled with qualitative research interviews conducted with asylum officers and gender experts at the Swedish Migration Agency. Our findings suggest that asylum officers tend to equate gender with women, and that the understanding of “vulnerability” seems to be reserved for those gendered female or regarded as inhabiting a non-hegemonic masculinity (i.e. LGBTQ asylum seekers). We argue that these biases are linked to racist and patriarchal understandings of “the Other” that may also have detrimental effects on male asylum seekers’ possibilities to articulate and make convincing their protection needs. As such, the paper contributes to the broader understanding of the entanglements of gender, race and deservingness in European asylum systems.
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- K. Franck, Anja, 1973, et al.
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In the quest for "integration" evidence don't matter much: Unproven and disproven causality in Swedish migration law-making
- 2022
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Ingår i: EISA 15th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Athens, 1-4 September 2022.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Over the past couple of years Sweden has seen a substantial shift in its migration policy framework. These shifts have, according to the official rhetoric, been necessary in order to reduce the number of new asylum seekers and to promote the integration of those that are already present in the country. According to this logic, there has been a move towards temporary rather than permanent residency permits alongside the introduction of civic integration measures. These measures are intended to ensure the economic self-sufficiency of asylum seekers themselves and to reduce the possibility for family reunification. Having spent considerable time studying labor migration and guestworker programs in other parts of the world, we have noted with great interest how the measures that are now being introduced as means to promote the integration of asylum seekers in Sweden bear a striking resemblance to measures used to prevent the integration of labor migrants in places like Malaysia or the United States. Such measures have included a similar focus on temporariness, various forms of employer-sponsorship and restrictions on the right to bring dependents and family members. In this paper we therefore seek to understand how it is possible that policies designed to do one thing in one context (restrict integration) are expected to achieve the precise opposite in another. We do this through combining previous insights from studies of guestworker schemes and civic integration measures with a close reading of official documents and transcripts of parliamentary debates. Along with other studies of civic integration, we argue that there is in fact little evidence that these policies accomplish what they set out to do but rather continue to place individuals in precarious positions.
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