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Story telling and magic : meaning making in immigration policing
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Aliverti, Ana J. (2023) Story telling and magic : meaning making in immigration policing. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 12 (2). pp. 25-35. doi:10.5204/ijcjsd.2889 ISSN 2202-8005 .
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.2889
Abstract
This article explores the place of storytelling and magic in immigration policing in the United Kingdom. ‘Immigration stories’ are important for grasping the role of narratives in migration policing. While aimed at rendering a complex social world legible, this form of knowledge reveals its limitations. Rather than producing a cognitive template to make sense of a boundless world, immigration enforcement practices show illegibility as a hallmark of the state. The work of immigration officers is dominated by hazardous and arbitrary practices and rules⸻which I call ‘immigration magic’⸻which often leave them devoid of power and control. As an exercise in southernising border criminology, I interrogate the received division of labour in theorising the state in the south and north, on the one hand, and state and society on the other. In doing so, I seek to lay this northern policing bureaucracy open to underexplored dimensions and angles, as frontline staff are tasked with re-spatialising state power.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration K Law [Moys] > KA Jurisprudence K Law [Moys] > KC International Law |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Immigration enforcement , Emigration and immigration, Emigration and immigration -- Government policy, Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy, Police administration -- Great Britain, Law enforcement -- Great Britain | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy | ||||||
Publisher: | International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy | ||||||
ISSN: | 2202-8005 | ||||||
Official Date: | 1 June 2023 | ||||||
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Volume: | 12 | ||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 25-35 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.5204/ijcjsd.2889 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Description: | Special Issue: Southern Perspectives of Border Controls |
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Date of first compliant deposit: | 12 April 2023 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 13 April 2023 | ||||||
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