Disciplining the Transnational Mobility of People [Paperback]

This volume scrutinizes new developments in contemporary mobility and migration politics and shows that they are based on a mix of traditional coercive interventions and less repressive and indirect practices.1. Introduction: Disciplining the Transnational Mobility of People; Antoine P?coud 2. The Transformation of Migration Politics: From Migration Control to Disciplining Mobility; Martin Geiger 3. A Tale of Two Tactics: Civil Society and Competing Visions of Global Migration Governance from Below; Stefan Rother 4. From Individual to Migration Flow: The European Union's Management Approach and the Rule of Law; Bas Schotel 5. Overflowing Borders: Smart Surveillance and the Border as a Market Device; Harrison Smith 6. Take a Chance on Me : Premediation, Technologies of Love, and Marriage Migration Management; Anne-Marie D'Aoust 7. To Protect and Control: Anti-Trafficking and the Duality of Disciplining Mobility; Bethany Hastie 8. Why do they take the Money and not give Visas? The Governmentality of Consulate Offices in Cameroon; Maybritt Jill Alpes 9. Shaping Female Migration in Argentina: Human Rights in the Time of Migration Management; Tanya Basok, Nicola Piper and Victoria Simmons 10. Of Berries and Seasonal Work : The Swedish Berry Industry and the Disciplining of Labor Migration from Thailand; Madeleine Eriksson and Aina Tollefsen 11. They don't Beat you; they Work on your Brain : Regular Illegality and the Disciplining of Rejected Asylum Seekers; Giada de Coulon 12. Voluntary Return : The Practical Failure of a Benevolent Concept; Stephan D?nnwald

'Disciplining the Transnational Mobility of People offers a very important opening onto the world of differentially managed mobilities, in contrast to the more conventional understanding of mobility governance as a strategy of enforced immobilization. This is a significant contribution to debates on states' attempts to govern mobility and immobility today.' - Mat Coleman, The Ohio State University, USlÃê