Border times: welfare workers navigating the temporal intersections of migration law and the education system.
In migration law, power asymmetry is often hidden in seemingly neutral policies where clock and calendar time enact temporal boundaries such as dates, lengths of time and chronological age, which are used for border control. In Sweden, some 8,000 youths who received deportation orders when the gover...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 52; no. 11; pp. 2901 - 2920 |
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Jun2026
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