circumvent the controls, but have also jeopardized the economy and the stability of a region that has become heavily dependent on the phenomenon of “transit migration.” In turn, this situation has created tension between authorities at the national level, who
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Managing a Multiplicity of Interests
The Case of Irregular Migration from Libya
Melissa Phillips
. “ The Role of Narratives in Migration Policy-Making: A Research Framework .” British Journal of Politics and International Relations 13 ( 1 ): 1 – 11 . Boubakri , Hassen. 2004 . “ Transit Migration Between Tunisia, Libya and Sub-Saharan Africa
When Transit States Pursue Their Own Agenda
Malaysian and Indonesian Responses to Australia's Migration and Border Policies
Antje Missbach and Gerhard Hoffstaedter
transit migration in Southeast Asia. Many asylum seekers and refugees enter Malaysia legally as tourists and wait, work, and sometimes register with the UNHCR before moving on to Indonesia, the secondary staging ground for boat journeys to Australia. Now
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Reconceptualizing Transit States in an Era of Outsourcing, Offshoring, and Obfuscation
Antje Missbach and Melissa Phillips
terms (e.g., destination country, receiving country, and country of origin) that we rely on here and retrace some of the scholarship that has evolved around transit migration over the last decades. While the process of transiting through several
From Ecuador to Elsewhere
The (Re)Configuration of a Transit Country
Soledad Álvarez Velasco
), the case of Ecuador as a transit country has not been widely recognized or studied. By analyzing how and why Ecuador has become a transit country, this article makes a contribution to the field of transit migration studies with findings and reflections
Dirty Work, Dangerous Others
The Politics of Outsourced Immigration Enforcement in Mexico
Wendy Vogt
scholarship has addressed the political, economic, and social dimensions of transit migration in countries worldwide ( Basok et al. 2015 ; Collyer et al. 2012 ; Mainwaring and Brigden 2016 ; Missbach 2015 ; Phillips and Missbach 2017b ). Of particular
“Looking for One’s Life”
Trapped Mobilities and Adventure in Morocco
Sébastien Bachelet
This article examines how “irregular” migrants from West and Central Africa make sense of their trapped mobility in Morocco: for many, crossing into Europe has become almost impossible, returning to home countries “empty-handed” a shameful option, and staying very difficult in the face of repeated infringement of their rights. I explore the limits of contemporary depictions of a “migration crisis” that portray migrants south of the Mediterranean Sea as simply en route to Europe and fail to engage with (post)colonial entanglements. The article recalibrates the examinationof migrants’ lived experiences of stasis and mobility by exploring the emic notion of “adventure” among migrants “looking for their lives.” A focus on how migrants articulate their own (im)mobility further exposes and defies the pitfalls of abstract concepts such as “transit migration,” which is misleading in its implication of a fixed destination.
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Recentering the South in Studies of Migration
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
The Surreptitious Speech. Presence Africaine and the Politics of Otherness, 1947–1987 , ed. V.Y. Mudimbe , 238 – 48 . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Içduygu , Ahmet , and Deniz Yükseker . 2012 . “ Rethinking Transit Migration in