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This book traces the practices of migration control and its
contestation in the European migration regime in times of intense
politicization. The collaboratively written work brings together
the perspectives of state agents, NGOs, migrants with precarious
legal status, and their support networks, collected through
multi-sited fieldwork in eight European states: Austria, Denmark,
Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden and Switzerland. The book
provides knowledge of how European migration law is implemented,
used, and challenged by different actors, and of how it lends and
constrains power over migrants' journeys and prospects. An
ethnography of law in action, the book contributes to socio-legal
scholarship on migration control at the margins of the state. "This
book is a major achievement. A remarkable and insightful study that
through close analysis of the practices of migration control in 8
European countries (Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Latvia,
Lithuania, Sweden and Switzerland) provides powerful new insight
into the power of the state at its margins and over those that are
marginalised." - Andrew Geddes, Director, Migration Policy Centre,
European University Institute "Migrants Before the Law provides a
much-needed account of the dizzying legal labyrinth that migrants
navigate as they seek to survive in Europe. Based on multi-sited
ethnography in detention centres, migration offices, police
stations, and non-governmental organizations as well as on
interviews with key government actors, advocates, and migrants
themselves, this book explores the systems of control and forms of
migrant precarity that operate along Europe's internal borders, in
multiple national and transnational contexts. Readers will come
away with a deepened understanding of the perverse workings of
power, the ways that the uncertainty and unpredictability of law
foster both despair and hope, the degree to which the immigration
"crisis" is both manufactured and experienced as real, and the
ingenuity of migrants themselves in the face of Kafkaesque state
practices." - Susan Bibler Coutin, Professor of Criminology, Law
and Society and Anthropology, University of California, Irvine, USA
"Migrants Before the Law is an excellent exposition of the
dispersed sites of the law and the hinges and junctions through
which this apparatus is actualized in the lives of migrants facing
deportation, contesting their status as illegal migrants or seeking
to regularize their precarious position. Written with great
sensitivity and an eye to minute details this book is also an
achievement in furthering the method of collaborative ethnography
and new ways of staging comparisons." - Veena Das,
Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins
University, USA
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND. Amid the
heavy politicisation and problematisation of male migrants in
Europe, this ethnographic study casts new light on their
experiences, struggles and everyday resistance. The author follows
the journeys of those who seek, but have little hope of achieving,
permanent residence status in European countries, tracking their
successive migrations, detentions and deportations within and
beyond the continent. She explores migrants' tactics, the impact of
precarity on their lives and the dual feelings of enduring hope and
powerless vulnerability they experience. This is a sensitive and
insightful analysis of how the European migration regime shapes,
and is shaped by, migrants' practices.
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