Research Handbook on Irregular Migration

Edited by Ilse van Liempt, Associate Professor, Department of Human Geography, Utrecht University, Joris Schapendonk, Associate Professor, Department of Human Geography, Radboud University, Nijmegen and Amalia Campos-Delgado, Assistant Professor in Law and Society, Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society, Leiden University, the Netherlands

‘With a stellar line up of established and early career scholars in the field, this Handbook is a must-read for everyone interested in understanding the multi-scalar politics of migrants’ irregularisation, its everyday impacts on the lives of migrants with no or precarious immigration status and opportunities and spaces for contestation and resistance.’

• Contents:Preface xxiIntroduction: the production of irregular migration 1Ilse van Liempt, Joris Schapendonk and Amalia Campos-DelgadoPART I APPROACHES AND PERSPECTIVES ON IRREGULAR MIGRATION1 Irregular migration and migration control policies 14Anna Triandafyllidou2 Invisible, vulnerable, heroic and criminal: a gendered history ofmigration labelling 25Marlou Schrover3 How to research “irregular” migration: approaches and perspectivesfrom the field 36Shiva S. Mohan, Alison Mountz, Monica Romero and Ana Visan4 Humans, not arrows: countering the violent cartography ofundocumented migration 49Henk van Houtum and Rodrigo Bueno Lacy5 Situated glossaries of (ir)regular migration 66Kolar Aparna, Manju Sharma, Arlene Bugabo and Beatrice Catanzaro6 Beach encounters: migrant death and forensics as an art of paying attention 81Amade M’charekPART II ASPIRATIONS AND FACILITATION OF IRREGULAR MIGRATION7 Welcome aboard KLM Air Land! Hope and uncertainty in precariousmigration projects 95Nauja Kleist8 Irregular migrants and families: the challenges of transnational familylives in times of limited mobility and transient settlement 106Inka Stock9 Deterrence or empowerment? Awareness and information campaigns asa migration governance tool to stop irregular migration 118Ida Marie Savio Vammen10 How unintended are these consequences? The changing environmentfor migration facilitation in Niger since 2015 130Ekaterina Golovko and Fransje Molenaar11 Re-socializing migrant networks: moving beyond dominantmigrant-network approaches 140Richard Staring and Mieke KoxPART III EVERYDAY LIFE AND (IM)MOBILITY12 The irregularity maze: investigating asymmetries and discontinuities inthe interaction between migrants’ geographic mobility and regulatoryframeworks 153Milena Belloni, Ferruccio Pastore and Emanuela Roman13 Stuck in camps, at sea and in illegality: dimensions of stuckednessendured by Rohingya refugees 168Antje Missbach14 Irregular times: refugees’ struggles for a temporal justice in theEuropean (im)mobility regime 178Elena Fontanari15 Children’s mobility across the EU governance of unauthorizedmigration as a game of chutes and ladders: evidence from Libya, Italy,Greece and Belgium 190Giacomo Orsini, Océane Uzureau, Malte Behrendt, Marina Rota, SarahAdeyinka, Ilse Derluyn and Ine Lietaert16 The U.S. response to undocumented immigrant youth: “deferred”mobilities in New York 202Guillermo Yrizar BarbosaPART IV INFORMAL AND IRREGULAR LABOUR AND EXPLOITABILITY17 Migrant women workers in Europe: forms of irregularity and conditionsof vulnerability 215Giulia Garofalo Geymonat, Sabrina Marchetti and Letizia Palumbo18 Casting outside regular pathways: state restrictions to Sri Lankanfemale migration 227Chandima Arambepola19 Becoming sanfei: the irregularization of foreign migrants in China 239Guangzhi Huang and Heidi Østbø HaugenThe research for this book chapter has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Grant Agreement No. 802070).20 Making a living while on the move: migrant trajectories, hierarchizedmobilities and local labour landscapes in Central America 250Nanneke Winters21 Illegalized refugees seeking protection in the Hong Kong economy 261Francesco VecchioPART V GEOPOLITICS AND MICROPOLITICS OF CONTROL22 Helping people feel that their future lies at home: the geopolitics ofexternalising irregular migration control in the European Union 271Michael Collyer23 Regularizing irregular sojourners: the avenue of “deservingness” 282Maurizio Ambrosini24 Being (in)visible: exploring the post-return categorisations ofCameroonian migrants 293Presca Wanki, Ilse Derluyn and Ine Lietaert25 On the administration of evil: frontline bureaucrats resolving ethicaltensions while enforcing oppressive deportation policies 305Barak Kalir26 Dirty borderwork and maculated borders: examining the Mexicantransit control regime 316Amalia Campos-DelgadoPART VI SOLIDARITY, ADVOCACY AND CONTESTATION27 Autonomous and civic solidarity practices towards irregular migrants in Europe 328Martin Bak Jørgensen28 Undocumented immigrant activism: the struggle for rights and recognition 338Walter J. Nicholls and Zayda Sorrell-Medina29 Autonomous migration and transgressive solidarity: the case of the El Hiblu 3 Daniela DeBono and Ċetta Mainwaring30 Contesting the lethal Mediterranean frontier Charles Heller, Lorenzo Pezzani and Maurice StierlAfterword Alison MountzIndex