TY - JOUR
T1 - "I call it a system.” Unauthorized migrants’ understandings of the long reach of Dutch internal migration controls.
AU - Kox, MH (Mieke)
AU - Staring, RHJM (Richard)
N1 - Kox M and Staring R (2021) “I call it a system.” Unauthorized migrants’ understandings of the long reach of Dutch internal migration controls. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. 10(3): 87-100. https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.2043
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - We draw on the concept of deportability to show how unauthorized migrants who (used to) live in the Netherlands perceive and experience Dutch internal-control mechanisms. We first conclude that these migrants’ deportability has serious legal, social, and existential effects on them, which they feel long after their return or deportation to their home country. Second, we state that unauthorized migrants evaluate the Dutch internal-control mechanisms as “one system” in which they distinguish three important, interlinked layers, consisting of (1) divergent actors, (2) laws and policies inside and outside the migration control domains located within (3) different geographies. This implies that individual nation-states, through their internal control mechanisms, also contribute to the externalization of migration control at a supranational level. We conclude that the state’s internal migration controls bring about immobility not only in the countries of settlement but also in the transit and home countries.
AB - We draw on the concept of deportability to show how unauthorized migrants who (used to) live in the Netherlands perceive and experience Dutch internal-control mechanisms. We first conclude that these migrants’ deportability has serious legal, social, and existential effects on them, which they feel long after their return or deportation to their home country. Second, we state that unauthorized migrants evaluate the Dutch internal-control mechanisms as “one system” in which they distinguish three important, interlinked layers, consisting of (1) divergent actors, (2) laws and policies inside and outside the migration control domains located within (3) different geographies. This implies that individual nation-states, through their internal control mechanisms, also contribute to the externalization of migration control at a supranational level. We conclude that the state’s internal migration controls bring about immobility not only in the countries of settlement but also in the transit and home countries.
UR - https://www.crimejusticejournal.com/article/view/2043
U2 - 10.5204/IJCJSD.2043
DO - 10.5204/IJCJSD.2043
M3 - Article
VL - 10
SP - 1
EP - 14
JO - International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
JF - International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
SN - 2202-7998
IS - 3
ER -