Abstract
AbstractThis chapter lays out the conceptual and analytical frameworks for my analysis and embeds it in the existing literature on the internalisation of immigration control and the role of implementing actors and their everyday practices. It starts with a critical discussion of ‘migration management’ and the limits of state control over contemporary migration. After conceptualising contemporary migrant irregularity and what I call the micro-management of it, I develop the theoretical and conceptual framework of my study, which combines a critical understanding of internal bordering processes with Foucauldian conceptualisations of power and governmentality as well as crucial insights from organisation studies. At the end of the chapter I explain my analytical framework and its application in detail.
Publisher
Springer International Publishing