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Controlling ‘the foreigner’. Shifting borders and securitisations in Sweden’s internal migration control.

Persson, Emelie LU (2014) SIMV07 20141
Department of Political Science
Master of Science in Global Studies
Graduate School
Abstract
Internal control of foreigners is a measure of migration control employed by the Swedish state, with two main goals: to monitor that no foreigners reside in the country without legal permits, and to find and detain foreigners who are to be deported. Charged by the government to increase efficiency in expulsions, the Migration Board, The National Police Board and the Prison and Probation Service initiated the cooperation project REVA in 2009-2014, which this thesis takes as its point of departure. Through a Foucauldian and discourse analytical approach to the law and policy, the study situates internal control within European politics on migration and free movement as one of the Schengen Agreement’s compensatory measures. The control is... (More)
Internal control of foreigners is a measure of migration control employed by the Swedish state, with two main goals: to monitor that no foreigners reside in the country without legal permits, and to find and detain foreigners who are to be deported. Charged by the government to increase efficiency in expulsions, the Migration Board, The National Police Board and the Prison and Probation Service initiated the cooperation project REVA in 2009-2014, which this thesis takes as its point of departure. Through a Foucauldian and discourse analytical approach to the law and policy, the study situates internal control within European politics on migration and free movement as one of the Schengen Agreement’s compensatory measures. The control is simultaneously located within a specific national biopolitics and its historical exclusions, in particular of the Roma. Critically engaging with securitisation, exceptionalism and borders, the thesis shows how internal control of foreigners is a contemporary bordering practice that extends the securitised moment of border crossing into everyday life across society. The control relies on a combination of large-scale surveillance cooperation, biometric registration and identity management, and a continuous policing of belonging as well as on the contested limit between the ‘citizen’ and the ‘foreigner’. (Less)
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author
Persson, Emelie LU
supervisor
organization
course
SIMV07 20141
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
REVA, borders, postcolonial theory, securitisation, free movement, exceptionalism, internal control of foreigners, migration control, Foucault
language
English
id
4461003
date added to LUP
2014-07-01 08:34:15
date last changed
2014-07-01 08:34:15
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  abstract     = {{Internal control of foreigners is a measure of migration control employed by the Swedish state, with two main goals: to monitor that no foreigners reside in the country without legal permits, and to find and detain foreigners who are to be deported. Charged by the government to increase efficiency in expulsions, the Migration Board, The National Police Board and the Prison and Probation Service initiated the cooperation project REVA in 2009-2014, which this thesis takes as its point of departure. Through a Foucauldian and discourse analytical approach to the law and policy, the study situates internal control within European politics on migration and free movement as one of the Schengen Agreement’s compensatory measures. The control is simultaneously located within a specific national biopolitics and its historical exclusions, in particular of the Roma. Critically engaging with securitisation, exceptionalism and borders, the thesis shows how internal control of foreigners is a contemporary bordering practice that extends the securitised moment of border crossing into everyday life across society. The control relies on a combination of large-scale surveillance cooperation, biometric registration and identity management, and a continuous policing of belonging as well as on the contested limit between the ‘citizen’ and the ‘foreigner’.}},
  author       = {{Persson, Emelie}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Controlling ‘the foreigner’. Shifting borders and securitisations in Sweden’s internal migration control.}},
  year         = {{2014}},
}