Migrants Before the Law: Contested Migration Control in Europe

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv Introduction (Tobias G. Eule, Lisa Marie Borrelli, Annika Lindberg, Anna Wyss)....Pages 1-38 Inside the Migration Regime (Tobias G. Eule, Lisa Marie Borrelli, Annika Lindberg, Anna Wyss)....Pages 39-80 Decision-Making and the Role of Law (Tobias G. Eule, Lisa Marie Borrelli, Annika Lindberg, Anna Wyss)....Pages 81-110 Illegibility in the Migration Regime (Tobias G. Eule, Lisa Marie Borrelli, Annika Lindberg, Anna Wyss)....Pages 111-148 Time as Waste and Tactic (Tobias G. Eule, Lisa Marie Borrelli, Annika Lindberg, Anna Wyss)....Pages 149-186 Responsibility in a Migration Regime of Many Hands (Tobias G. Eule, Lisa Marie Borrelli, Annika Lindberg, Anna Wyss)....Pages 187-227 Conclusion: The Production of Order Before the Law (Tobias G. Eule, Lisa Marie Borrelli, Annika Lindberg, Anna Wyss)....Pages 229-247 Back Matter ....Pages 249-264