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BORDERING SUBJECTS. THE UNSPOKEN INCORPORATION OF UNDOCUMENTED MIGRANTS IN ITALY.
Full text linkSocio-legal and criminological research make sense of the mechanisms of border control by taking for granted that the main aim of logic of control is one to exclude, therefore they generally focus on removal procedures. My research takes a different approach: my focus is on the far more frequent conditions under which undocumented migrants are informally allowed to remain despite official permission. Therefore, in looking at the immigration control regimes, my focus will be on undocumented migrants living inside national territories rather than removal procedures.
Undocumented migrants are generally seen as resulting from immigration law failing to enforce removal. On the contrary, I argue that undocumented migrants living inside national territories may be seen as the very product of law instead of its failure. In a sense, immigration control regimes are mechanisms that exclude through removal and at the same time processes of production of a new subject, that is, the undocumented migrant living inside national territories despite official permission.
This thesis aims to enrich the literature on control by looking at the differential inclusion of those many undocumented migrants living in the territory. Differential inclusion is a concept elaborated by Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson (2013); it is an invitation to look at the mechanisms of inclusion that can involve various degrees of subordination, rule, discrimination, racism, disenfranchisement, exploitation and segmentation. In this line, the foucauldian concept of discipline goes exactly in the direction of acknowledging punishment, specifically imprisonment, as a tool to normalize individuals, in order to make them to conform to the norm and include them in disciplined societies (Foucault, 1977). Hence, inclusion and exclusion are assembled logics. As well as it seems a logic of inclusion the one behind imprisonment, at least at the origin of capitalism and the modern state: prison is aimed at disciplining the individual to labour, at producing the disciplined worker useful for the development of capitalistic economy (Melossi and Pavarini, 1981). My theoretical perspective will move from here.
One main concern of the present work is that, even if internal border control relies on similar discourses, power relations, and laws at the global level, I argue that it produce dissimilar outcomes depending on the local context. Therefore, by accepting Saskia Sassen’s invitation to see “the global inside the national” (Sassen, 2010), my aim is to show that the global logics meet other logics, conditions, and history at the local level, which affects the expected outcomes. On the one hand, the outcomes of global borders control depend on the local level; on the other hand, the local dimension is the only dimension where it is possible to study, recognize and understand even global dynamics.
Using a case study of internal border control in Bologna, Italy, I will examine the logics underpinning global border control at the local level, as this may question the logics of global border control often taken for granted. The core of investigation will be the interaction between police and undocumented migrants at the internal borders, that is, once migrants have crossed external borders and live inside the territory. My case study looks at undocumented migrants in Bologna (Italy) continually undergoing police checks, being charged, and even detained. Few are actually removed; the great majority remains and finds their place in the Italian shadow economy. I argue that what we see in Bologna is a logic of subordinated inclusion rather than exclusion, whose main result is the production of a subject who may not completely belong, yet is not completely excluded either.
Police are at the core of present investigation, as the Italian immigration law entrusts the control over undocumented immigration to general police (a specific immigration police have never been issued in Italy indeed). Even so, police practices are not taken into consideration alone: what really stands at the core of present research is the interaction between migrants and police. I consider that migrants are not passive subjects in the immigration control regime, but by enacting strategies of resistance, they oppose the police, force them towards negotiation, and contribute to the final results of interaction. The present analysis acknowledges that migrants oppose strategies of subjectivation to the strategies of subjection enacted by the police, which originates that migrants are active agents in the mechanisms of control that produce them as subjects.
The conclusions discuss the importance to broaden our consideration of the elements taking part in the immigration control regime. They proposes that immigration penalty is much wider than just removal procedures. They summarize the process of creation of the peculiar subject of the present case study, underling global and local dynamics of power, and it will shed light on the connection between penalty, border, and economy.
The process of bordering subjects in the specific case study of this investigation opens up for two additional considerations. 1 the analysis of border control should also take economy into account. 2) the bodies of undocumented migrants are the concrete manifestation of the link between economy and penalty. I argue that the complex processes through which undocumented migrants are produced as subject may be analysed as one segment of “the discursive interactions of all the actors“ (Melossi 2008: 7) which link penalty and economy. The research is aimed at answering the crucial question of how such mechanisms come to be. In fact, rather than as a well-organized and preconceived apparatus, the mechanisms of control is intended as the result of not planned actions of individual actors, who time after time look for the “best” way to manage the complex situation of undocumented immigration
No deportation but no leniency here: Multi-faceted bordered penality in Italy
No full textThe chapter delves into Italy's pivotal role as a critical European gateway in the Central Mediterranean, strategically positioned for sea arrivals and transit to Northern and Central Europe. Despite the perceived leniency in its migration enforcement system, marked by discretion and limited deportation, Italy's border control reveals a complexity that goes beyond initial impressions. Focusing on the concept of “bordered penality", the chapter argues that the enforcement system, grappling with the significant presence of non-deportable migrants, leads to a continuous movement among various confinement sites. The authors highlight the inhumane and pervasive control mechanisms experienced by migrants, as they shift between pre-removal detention centres, hotspots, reception centres, and prisons, resulting in differential inclusion. The chapter traces the historical evolution of arrivals in Italy, emphasizing the geopolitical significance and economic labour market implications. It scrutinizes the shortcomings of deportation practices and delineates the continuum of confinement for undeported migrants. Ultimately, the chapter asserts that Italy's bordered penality, encompassing detention and containment practices, effectively responds to the country's unique political, economic, and geopolitical situation
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Conclusion – Border criminologies in the periphery: Conclusions, limitations and future research agenda
No full textIn sum, this collection has intended, first and foremost, to challenge
conventional wisdom in border criminology and crimmigration studies, by
broadening the analytical lens and including peripheral regions, countries,
and scholars in academic conversations. More precisely, it has aimed to
denaturalize widespread perspectives on bordered penality, regarding, e.g.,
how bordering practices are organized; if, how, and to what extent detention
and deportation practices are expanding; and how macro social forces such
as racialization processes, postcolonial arrangements, and anti-migration
sentiments are shaping immigration enforcement policies. The chapters gathered in this collection pursue this goal by unveiling the notable diversity of
migration control practices
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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