After the reflexive turn in migration studies: towards the doing migration approach

  • What processes transform (im)mobile individuals into ‘migrants’ and geographic movements across political-territorial borders into ‘migration’? To address this question, the article develops the doing migration approach, which combines perspectives from social constructivism, praxeology and the sociologies of knowledge and culture. ‘Doing migration’ starts with the processes of social attribution that differentiate between ‘migrants’ and ‘non-migrants’. Embedded in institutional, organizational and interactional routines these attributions generate unique social orders of migration. By illustrating these conceptual ideas, the article provides insights into the elements of the contemporary European order of ‘migration’. Its institutional routines contribute to the emergence of a European migration regime that involves narratives of economization, securitization and humanitarization. The organizational routines of the European migration order involve surveillance and diversity management, which have disciplining effects on those defined as ‘migrants’. The routines of everyday face-to-face interactions produce various micro-forms of doing ‘migration’ through stigmatization and othering, but they also provide opportunities to resist a social attribution as ‘migrant’.

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Author:Anna Amelina
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-450041
URL:http://www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/67001816/amelina_doing_migration.pdf
Parent Title (German):Working Paper Series "Gender, Diversity and Migration" ; No. 13
Series (Serial Number):Working Paper Series "Gender, Diversity and Migration" (13)
Publisher:Goethe-Universität, Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Place of publication:Frankfurt am Main
Document Type:Working Paper
Language:English
Year of Completion:2017
Year of first Publication:2017
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2017/11/06
Page Number:35
HeBIS-PPN:424224984
Institutes:Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht