Research Handbook on Irregular Migration

PART I: APPROACHES AND PERSPECTIVES ON IRREGULAR MIGRATION

1.     Irregular migration and migration control policies (Anna Triandafyllidou) — Page 14

2.     Invisible, vulnerable, heroic and criminal: a gendered history of migration labelling 

     (Marlou Schrover) — Page 25

3.     How to research “irregular” migration: approaches and perspectives from the field 

     (Shiva S. Mohan, Alison Mountz, Monica Romero and    Ana Visan) — Page 36

4.    Humans, not arrows: countering the violent cartography of undocumented migration

     (Henk van Houtum and Rodrigo Bueno Lacy) — Page 49

5.     Situated glossaries of (ir)regular migration

     (Kolar Aparna, Manju Sharma, Arlene Bugabo and Beatrice Catanzaro) — Page 66

6.     Beach encounters: migrant death and forensics as an art of paying attention 

     (Amade M’charek) — Page 81

PART II: ASPIRATIONS AND FACILITATION OF IRREGULAR MIGRATION

7.      Welcome aboard KLM Air Land! Hope and uncertainty in precarious migration projects

         (Nauja Kleist) — Page 95

8.      Irregular migrants and families: the challenges of transnational family lives in times of limited

         mobility and transient settlement (Inka Stock) — Page 106

9.      Deterrence or empowerment? Awareness and information campaigns as a migration governance

         tool to stop irregular migration (Ida Marie Savio Vammen) — Page 118

10.  How unintended are these consequences? The changing environment for migration facilitation in

       Niger since 2015 (Ekaterina Golovko and Fransje Molenaar) — Page 130

11.  Re-socializing migrant networks: moving beyond dominant migrant-network approaches 

       (Richard Staring and Mieke Kox) — Page 140

PART III: EVERYDAY LIFE AND (IM)MOBILITY

12.  The irregularity maze: investigating asymmetries and discontinuities in the interaction between migrants’

       geographic mobility and regulatory frameworks (Milena Belloni, Ferruccio Pastore and Emanuela Roman) Page 153

13.  Stuck in camps, at sea and in illegality: dimensions of stuckedness endured by Rohingya refugees

       (Antje Missbach) — Page 168

14.  Irregular times: refugees’ struggles for a temporal justice in the European (im)mobility regime

       (Elena Fontanari) — Page 178

15.  Children’s mobility across the EU governance of unauthorized migration as a game of chutes and ladders:

       evidence from Libya, Italy, Greece and Belgium — Page 190

16.  The U.S. response to undocumented immigrant youth: “deferred” mobilities in New York

       (Guillermo Yrizar Barbosa) — Page 202

PART IV: INFORMAL AND IRREGULAR LABOUR AND EXPLOITABILITY

17.  Migrant women workers in Europe: forms of irregularity and conditions of vulnerability 

      (Giulia Garofalo Geymonat, Sabrina Marchetti and Letizia Palumbo) — Page 215

18.  Casting outside regular pathways: state restrictions to Sri Lankan female migration 

       (Chandima Arambepola) — Page 227

19.  Becoming sanfei: the irregularization of foreign migrants in China 

       (Heidi Østbø Haugen and Guangzhi Huang) — Page 238

20.  Making a living while on the move: migrant trajectories, hierarchized mobilities and local

       labour landscapes in Central America  (Nanneke Winters) — Page 249

21.  Illegalized refugees seeking protection in the Hong Kong economy 

      (Francesco Vecchio) — Page 260

PART V: GEOPOLITICS AND MICROPOLITICS OF CONTROL

22.  Helping people feel that their future lies at home: the geopolitics of externalising irregular migration control

       in the European Union (Michael Collyer) — Page 270

23.  Regularizing irregular sojourners: the avenue of “deservingness” (Maurizio Ambrosini) — Page 281

24.  Being (in)visible: exploring the post-return categorisations of Cameroonian migrants 

       (Presca Wanki, Ilse Derluyn and Ine Lietaert) — Page 292

25.  On the administration of evil: frontline bureaucrats resolving ethical tensions while enforcing oppressive

        deportation policies (Barak Kalir) — Page 304

26.  Dirty borderwork and maculated borders: examining the Mexican Transit Control Regime 

       (Amalia Campos-Delgado) — Page 315

PART VI: SOLIDARITY, ADVOCACY AND CONTESTATION

27.  Autonomous and civic solidarity practices towards irregular migrants in Europe 

       (Martin Bak Jørgensen) — Page 327

28.  Undocumented immigrant activism: the struggle for rights and recognition 

       (Walter J. Nicholls and Zayda Sorrell-Medina) — Page 337

29.  Autonomous migration and transgressive solidarity: the case of the El Hiblu 3 

       (Daniela DeBono and Cetta Mainwaring) — Page 349

30.  Contesting the lethal Mediterranean frontier 

       (Charles Heller, Lorenzo Pezzani and Maurice Stierl)  — Page 361