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(Un)making illegality: Border control, racialized bodies and differential regimes of illegality in Morocco
The Sociological Review ( IF 2.743 ) Pub Date : 2021-01-07 , DOI: 10.1177/0038026120982273
Lorena Gazzotti 1
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What role does race play in the construction of illegality in the face of pervasive border control? Sociologists and anthropologists of migration have apprehended illegality as a constructed category, produced by immigration policies and laws aimed at ‘illegalizing’ established mobility flows. ‘Illegality’ operates as an exclusionary category not only because it is constructed by law, but also because it is activated by racialized forms of prejudice which structure societies according to hierarchies of dangerousness, visibility and deservedness. Scholars, however, have tended to examine the entanglement between race and illegality by focusing mostly on the experience of black and brown people, especially those coming from poor countries in the Global South, thus overlooking how whiteness influences and alters the workings of border control. Drawing on qualitative data gathered between 2013 and 2019 in Morocco, this article questions the category of ‘illegality’ as it is policed at the street level and experienced by different groups of foreigners in Morocco. Building on Sara Ahmed’s understanding of whiteness as an ‘orientation’, in this article the author argues that illegality is a label which is racially altered and expanded by border bureaucrats, who use it to differentially police the presence of migrant bodies pre-emptively visualized as legal or illegal. Whereas black people undergo pervasive containment procedures, white privilege allows white migrants to be oblivious of the border, even when their administrative situation is not compliant with migration law.



中文翻译:

(联合国)宣布非法:摩洛哥的边境管制,种族化机构和不同的非法制度

面对普遍的边境管制,种族在非法建设中扮演什么角色?移民的社会学家和人类学家已经将非法定为有组织的类别,这是由旨在“非法化”既有流动性的移民政策和法律产生的。“不法行为”之所以被排除在外,是因为它是依法构建的,而且还因为它是由种族化的偏见所激活的,而种族化的偏见则根据危险,可见度和应得的等级构成社会。然而,学者们倾向于通过主要关注黑人和棕色人,特别是来自全球南方贫困国家的黑人和棕色人的经历,来研究种族与非法行为之间的纠缠,从而忽略了白人如何影响和改变边境管制的工作。借助2013年至2019年在摩洛哥收集的定性数据,本文对“非法”的类别提出了质疑,因为这种非法行为是在街道一级受到警察监管,并由摩洛哥的不同外国人群体经历。在萨拉·艾哈迈德(Sara Ahmed)对白度作为一种“取向”的理解的基础上,作者认为,非法性是边境官僚在种族上改变和扩展的标签,边境官僚利用它来区别地监视先发制人地可视化为合法或非法。黑人经历了普遍的收容程序,而白人特权则使白人移民可以不理会边境,即使他们的行政状况不符合移民法。这篇文章质疑“非法”的类别,因为它在街头受到警察的监视,并受到摩洛哥不同群体的外国人的体验。在萨拉·艾哈迈德(Sara Ahmed)对白度作为一种“取向”的理解的基础上,作者认为,非法性是边境官僚在种族上改变和扩展的标签,边境官僚利用它来区别地监视先发制人地可视化为合法或非法。黑人经历了普遍的收容程序,而白人特权则使白人移民可以不理会边境,即使他们的行政状况不符合移民法。这篇文章质疑“非法”的类别,因为它在街头受到警察的监视,并受到摩洛哥不同群体的外国人的体验。在萨拉·艾哈迈德(Sara Ahmed)对白度作为一种“取向”的理解的基础上,作者认为,非法性是边境官僚在种族上改变和扩展的标签,边境官僚利用它来区别地监视先发制人地可视化为合法或非法。黑人经历了普遍的收容程序,而白人特权则使白人移民可以不理会边境,即使他们的行政状况不符合移民法。在这篇文章中,作者认为非法是边境官僚在种族上改变和扩展的标签,边境官僚用它来区别对待警察,抢先可视化为合法或非法。黑人经历了普遍的收容程序,而白人特权则使白人移民可以不理会边境,即使他们的行政状况不符合移民法。在这篇文章中,作者认为非法是边境官僚在种族上改变和扩展的标签,边境官僚用它来区别对待警察,抢先可视化为合法或非法。黑人经历了普遍的收容程序,而白人特权则使白人移民可以不理会边境,即使他们的行政状况不符合移民法。

更新日期:2021-01-14
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