States of Ignorance

Governing Irregular Migrants in Western Europe

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

Much attention has been focused on how states produce knowledge about the people they govern; far less has been written about those aspects of society that states choose to keep obscure. This book makes an original contribution to understanding state ignorance by focusing on one of the most complex and contested social issues of our day: the governance of irregular migrants. Tracing the evolution of state monitoring and control of irregular migrants from the 1960s to the present day across France, Germany and the United Kingdom, the authors develop a theory of 'state ignorance', setting out three complementary ways of understanding such oversights: ignorance as omission, ignorance as strategy, and ignorance as ascription. The findings upend dominant approaches, which tend to assume that states are preoccupied with producing knowledge about their populations, and argues that states have actually been keen to sustain ignorance about their unauthorised populations.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-11-16
Mått:159 x 235 x 22 mm
Vikt:570 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:294
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009410182

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Christina Boswell is Professor of Politics at the University of Edinburgh and Fellow of the British Academy. Her previous books include Manufacturing Political Trust: Targets and Performance Measurement in Public Policy (Cambridge, 2018) which won the Political Studies Association prize for best book in political science and The Political Uses of Expert Knowledge: Immigration Policy and Social Research (Cambridge, 2009) which won the American Political Science Association prize for best book on ideas, knowledge and policy. Emile Chabal is a Reader in History at the University of Edinburgh. His Ph.D. won the Cambridge History Faculty's Prince Consort and Thirlwall Prize and the Seeley Medal. His publications include A Divided Republic: Nation, State and Citizenship in Contemporary France (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and France (2020).

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'Based on impressive research that spans decades and countries, the authors show how state actors actively perpetuate ignorance about irregular migrants, often to serve their strategic ends. States of Ignorance is one of those rare books that makes you see the world differently.' Erik Bleich, Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science, Middlebury College, Vermont

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction. Migration control and strategies of knowledge production Christina Boswell; 1. States, knowledge, and ignorance Christina Boswell; 2. The post-war European state and (irregular) migration: a historical perspective Emile Chabal; 3. The invention of illegal immigration: constructing 'clandestine' immigrants in France and the UK Christina Boswell, Sara Casella Colombeau and Emile Chabal; 4. (Im)perfect control: the history of the German Foreigners Registry Elisabeth Badenhoop; 5. From ignorance to illegalization: the demise of the UK's non-individualized immigration control system, 1962–1971 Mike Slaven; 6. Denial, elucidation, or resignation? British and German state responses to unauthorised migrants Christina Boswell and Elisabeth Badenhoop; 7. To see or not to see: French regularisation policies and their limits Sara Casella Colombeau; 8. European integration and the leap into the unknown Christina Boswell and Sara Casella Colombeau; 9. Control infrastructures and ignorance Christina Boswell and Mike Slaven.