Contested categories in the context of international migration: introduction to the special issue
Ethnic and Racial Studies,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
48(4), P. 695 - 717
Published: Oct. 9, 2024
In
this
introduction
to
the
special
issue
Contested
Categories
in
Context
of
International
Migration,
we
argue
for
importance
critically
engaging
with
state-created
categories
and
classification
systems.
We
advocate
doing
so
particularly
convoluted
context
international
migration,
where
states
use
manage
migrants'
entry,
reception,
residence,
making
categorisation
extremely
consequential
individual
migrants,
even
though
bureaucratic
documentation
everyday
understandings
often
differ
greatly
between
home
countries
receiving
states.
outline
some
scholarship
on
that
has
inspired
our
thinking,
discuss
why
migration
is
such
an
important
generative
site
examining
processes
categorisation,
finally
consider
how
contributions
attest
this.
Language: Английский
Who is a minor? Age assessments of refugees in Germany and the classificatory multiplicity of the state
Ulrike Bialas
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Ethnic and Racial Studies,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
48(4), P. 740 - 762
Published: Sept. 25, 2024
Language: Английский
Who counts as a stateless person? Nation-statist logics and the liabilities of potential citizenship elsewhere
Ethnic and Racial Studies,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
48(4), P. 883 - 905
Published: Oct. 16, 2024
This
article
examines
how
the
definition
of
statelessness
is
contested
below
formal
letter
law
in
Malaysia.
Analysing
court
cases,
interviews
with
lawyers,
and
public
discourse,
I
encounter
a
paradox:
that
stateless
people
Malaysia
are
produced
through
juridical,
bureaucratic,
discursive
repudiations
their
claims
to
statelessness.
Adhering
"nation-statist
logics,"
Malaysian
state
actors
commonly
reject
citizenship
claimants'
assertions
being
by
classifying
them
instead
as
foreigners,
thus
shunting
responsibility
for
inclusion
elsewhere
beyond
borders.
These
practices
disproportionately
burden
minorities
racialized,
migrant
backgrounds
presumptions
having
"potential
citizenship"
elsewhere,
even
if
such
links
tenuous
or
merely
theoretical.
By
centering
articulate
belonging
face
abject
exclusion,
categories
citizen
flexibly
mobilized
legal,
political,
social
spheres,
this
offers
new
avenues
critiquing
normativity
contemporary
nation-state
system.
Language: Английский
Reproducing and reformulating categories of skill in regional and global migration governance: evidence from India and Bangladesh
Ethnic and Racial Studies,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
48(4), P. 763 - 788
Published: Oct. 25, 2024
Approximately
one-third
of
the
world's
169
million
migrant
workers
come
from
Asia
and
Pacific
region,
primarily
working
in
temporary,
low-wage
jobs
Gulf,
where
they
face
human
labor
rights
issues.
In
2003,
12
Asian
migrant-origin
states
formed
Colombo
Process
to
address
these
concerns.
This
article
examines
contrasts
two
major
emigrant-origin
states'
-
India
Bangladesh
-behavior
Process,
a
regional
consultative
process,
other
multilateral
migration
governance
fora,
focusing
on
social
construction
skills.
Both
countries
inherited
colonial
legal
system
emigration
regulation
which
distinguished
emigrants
into
"high-"
"low-skill"
categories,
continues
reproduce,
while
aims
reformulate
their
categorization.
investigates
how,
where,
when
countries'
emigrant
categorization
processes
by
tracing
categories'
origins,
reproduction,
reformulation.
highlights
significant
role
play
politics
skill.
Language: Английский
Immigration bureaucracies and state-created categories across the globe
Ethnic and Racial Studies,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
48(4), P. 927 - 947
Published: Oct. 9, 2024
In
this
Afterword
I
engage
with
each
article
in
special
issue
by
highlighting
some
of
their
main
points
and
placing
them
conversation
scholarship
my
substantive
interests.
doing
so,
signal
the
expansive
potential
contribution
as
see
it
from
scholarly
corner.
elucidate
generative
collection
underscore
fruitfulness
adopting
critical
lens
to
state-created
categorization
that
threads
articles
for
field
immigration
studies
general.
Language: Английский