Navigating the European Migration Regime
Male Migrants, Interrupted Journeys and Precarious Lives
By Anna Wyss
ISBN
978-1529219609Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressISBN
978-1529219623Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University Press
Navigating the European Migration Regime
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND.
Amid the heavy politicisation and problematisation of male migrants in Europe, this ethnographic study casts new light on their experiences, struggles and everyday resistance.
The author follows the journeys of those who seek, but have little hope of achieving, permanent residence status in European countries, tracking their successive migrations, detentions and deportations within and beyond the continent. She explores migrants’ tactics, the impact of precarity on their lives and the dual feelings of enduring hope and powerless vulnerability they experience.
This is a sensitive and insightful analysis of how the European migration regime shapes, and is shaped by, migrants’ practices.
“This is a timely and important book on a highly politicised and moralised subject. Through meticulous, sensitive ethnographic research, Wyss offers a respectful and insightful contribution to the literature.” Melanie Griffiths, University of Birmingham
“By capturing the humanity of exhausted, desperate migrants, Wyss highlights the inhumanity of the border controls that have produced their situation. This is a beautifully written, brilliantly analysed ethnography.” Michael Collyer, University of Sussex
Anna Wyss is a social scientist and works as a postdoctoral researcher for the Institute of Public Law at the University of Bern.
1. Introduction
2. Intricate Migration Policies in a Heterogeneous Europe
3. Navigating Discourses: Masculinities, Racialisation and Vulnerabilities
4. Navigating Migration Control: Deromanticising Mobility
5. Navigating Uncertainty: Illegibility, Rumours and Hope
6. Navigating the Law: Tactics of Avoidance and Appropriation
7. Conclusion: Endurance and Exhaustion
