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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, 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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- Franck, Anja, 1973
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Constructing gender, place and work: Food hawking in Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
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Ingår i: Food hawkers: Selling in the street from antiquity to the present, 22-23 April 2010, Cambridge.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Abstract: Hawking is a permanent feature in most Malaysian cities and an important part of the country’s informal economy. Although some studies have been conducted, there is still relatively little knowledge around the Malaysian informal economy in general and women’s informal work in particular. This paper focuses on female food hawking in Pulau Pinang in the northern part of Malaysia. It explores the relationship between hawking and the construction of gender (at the intersection of age, class and ethnicity), work and place. The paper is based upon field-work conducted in Pulau Pinang during 2009. Around 80 female hawkers have been interviewed at three different morning markets – most of them selling prepared food, fresh fruits or vegetables. A majority of the women work in licensed stalls in fixed market places, some sell in unlicensed stalls outside the market area and a limited number also work from home. Prior to marriage and children most of the women held jobs in the formal economy either as factory workers or in the service sector. The aim of this paper is to contribute to an increased understanding of women’s food hawking in Malaysia as an important case of women’s informal labor market participation.
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- Franck, Anja, 1973, et al.
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Hacking migration control: Repurposing and reprogramming deportability
- 2023
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Ingår i: Security Dialogue. - : SAGE Publications. - 0967-0106 .- 1460-3640. ; 54:6, s. 568-585
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- What sort of political actors are international migrants? This article approaches this question by studying how migrants move between legality and illegality. We have struggled to understand the political content of this behaviour, because they have viewed it as either an attempt to gain the state’s acceptance as quasi-citizens or an attempt to autonomously subvert the state. However, migrants are more ambivalent political actors than either of these perspectives suggest. We argue that the political content of migrants’ efforts to move between legality and illegality can be better understood as a form of ‘hacking’: the ‘repurposing’ of institutionalized forms of political status in ways that compel the ‘reprogramming’ of systems of control. In order to develop this argument empirically, we draw on ethnographic research on the governance of migration between Myanmar and Malaysia.
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- Franck, Anja, 1973
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Humorless refugees, humorless Muslims: The politics of making people strangers, dangers and less-than-human
- 2023
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Ingår i: The 16th EISA Pan-European Conference on International Relations, 5-9 September, Potsdam.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Humorless lesbians, humorless feminists, humorless Muslims: Many are the groups that at various points in time have been deemed humorless. In this paper I want to think about the politics involved in constructing particular groups of people as humorless. Looking at two different empirical examples, the figure of ‘the humorless refugee’ and ‘the humorless Muslim,’ in the press and social media, I focus on the political consequences of being deemed humorless. Doing this, I first turn to the many different studies of humor within philosophy and broader social sciences which have suggested that humor is something essentially human, fundamental to the way we relate to each other and the world around us. In order to further analyze how this proposition relates to broader processes of dehumanization, I turn to postcolonial theory. Such theory provides important clues into processes of perpetually deferring particular (and racialized) subjects from the category of ‘the human’. Combining these two strands of literature, I argue, helps us reveal what is at stake in constructing someone as humorless and help us analyze why depriving someone of a sense of humor is such an effective political tool to make someone a stranger, a danger and even less-than-human.
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- Franck, Anja, 1973
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'Missing women': Analyzing the low female labor force participation rates in Penang, Malaysia
- 2010
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Ingår i: 2nd Congress of the Asian Asociation of Women's Studies (CAAWS), 9-11 December 2010, Penang.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Female labor force participation rates in Malaysia increased dramatically between the late 1950s and 1990s. However, since then the rates have stagnated and even seen a slight decline. Consequently, despite the country’s economic performance and export-oriented development strategy which have created many new jobs for women, Malaysia has one of the lowest female labor force participation rates in the whole ASEAN region. While the factors contributing to the rapid increase in the past are relatively well understood, there is still a need for analysis devoted towards understanding the continuously low, and even declining, female labor force participation rates in Malaysia. This paper, therefore, aims to contribute to an increased understanding of the conditions under which women in Malaysia are able to enter and sustain formal employment. Empirically it builds upon field work conducted in the State of Penang during 2009. Interviews were conducted with women who had previously worked in the formal economy – a majority in export-oriented manufacturing and services (such as tourism) – but who now work in the informal economy as street vendors, home workers and informal wage workers. Focus is placed on the factors that have influenced their labor market experiences and choices.
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- Franck, Anja, 1973
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Smiling as an act of aggression against oppression: Mutual recognition, colonial dialectics, and the Palestinian campaign to smile while being arrested
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Ingår i: Humorous Art and the Articulation of Everyday Practices: Narratives from Palestine and Beyond, Vienna 3-4 July, 2023.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- During 2021 several stories surfaced in the international press of Palestinians smiling while being arrested. Lying handcuffed on the ground, being brutally detained, and led into vans by heavily armed Israeli forces, these published images showed young Palestinians that refused subjugation through the simple act of smiling (see also Lisa Bhungalia 2020). In this paper I want to think about why these acts are so provocative. What is it about the act of smiling that can make it an act of aggression against oppression? In order to answer this question, I turn to the work of Friedrich Hegel and Frantz Fanon. More precisely, I analyze the Palestinian campaign to smile while being arrested in relation to their different readings of mutual recognition as a crucial component of the dialectical relationship between the master and slave, the colonizer and colonized. My proposition is that attention to mutual recognition can help us better understand the political workings of smiles and laughter in the context of colonial oppression, including its potential to challenge its underlying mythologies of power.
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