The (surprising?) nonchalance of migration control agents.
This paper sheds light onto the processes of controlling irregular migration in Germany, based on ethnographic fieldwork with immigration officials, police forces, home office bureaucrats and non-state actors. Several studies have examined the policies and tools of migration control available to sta...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 44; no. 16; pp. 2780 - 2796 |
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Dec2018
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