| Titre | Sans-papiers. Les stratégies de séjour des immigrés clandestins. | |
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| Auteur | Godfried Engbersen. | |
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Revue | Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales |
| Numéro | no 129, septembre 1999 Délits d'immigration. | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Délits d'immigration. |
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| Résumé anglais | Undocumented people In his essay Broken Lives Broken Strategies Zygmunt Bau- man introduced the notion of strategies of to point at the preoccupation with quality of life which is central to modern societies As far as undocumented people are concerned Godfried Engbersen perfers to use the concept of strategies of residence which insists on what is really at stake for illegal migrants prolonging their stay in the Netherlands so that regularization may occur Four main strategies are discussed on the empiric basis of interviews with illegal migrants living in Rotterdam and information taken from police files mobilizing social capital entering into sham marriage mani pulating personal identity operating strategically in the public space Undocumented people can be organized into hierarchy according to their endowment with social capital people who benefit from substantial and lasting help from their family/friends/own ethnic community can be found at the top of this ethnic stratification while migrants who are isolated and therefore dependant on market relations are at the bottom The latters who have to manage on their own also have difficulties in entering residence mar riage which anyway proves to be problematic for all ille gal migrants because of their inferior social position They often have to manipulate their personal identity either borrowing authentic documents or using false papers they might also chose strategic nationality or simply obliterate their identity by destroying their own authentic documents to prevent deportation In this last case they might assume tasks that make them visible in drug-traf fic as they cannot be deported they are not very likely to be arrested But some others undocumented people pre fer to operate carefully in the public space Clandestinity might therefore be regarded as master-satus secrecy determines the social relations of illegal migrants Some unexpected effects of the recent laws regarding foreigners focused on identification and control might thus be discussed Europe-Panoptikon this image shall be preferred to the old metaphor of Europe-Fortress guards the system frontier rather than the physical fron tiers of rich welfare states so that she keeps criminalizing and clandestinizing illegal migrants and eventually gene rates its own criminality | |
| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/arss_0335-5322_1999_num_129_1_3301 |
