This paper engages with the violent conditions deriving from neoliberal trends in European migration and asylum governance. We explore how continuous precarity, in conjunction with an integration imperative, affects the lives of recently arrived Afghan refugees in Germany and Switzerland. Drawing on critical engagements with the politics of integration and theories of violence, we argue that, in both European countries, Afghans are increasingly forced to earn their right to remain on the basis of labour-market performance instead of obtaining humanitarian protection. Based on qualitative interview data, we show that persons with a precarious legal status are urged to fulfil neoliberal integration requirements to avoid being deported to their country of citizenship. Employing the “continuum of violence” as an analytical entry point, we specify how the interplay and consequences of structural and cultural violence manifest in the way those affected navigate precarious living conditions and uncertain futures in receiving countries.

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为保护工作？阿富汗国民在德国和瑞士的不稳定的法律包容

本文探讨了欧洲移民和庇护治理中的新自由主义趋势所带来的暴力状况。我们探讨了持续的不稳定以及融合的必要性如何影响最近抵达德国和瑞士的阿富汗难民的生活。利用对一体化政治和暴力理论的批判性参与，我们认为，在这两个欧洲国家，阿富汗人越来越被迫根据劳动力市场表现而不是获得人道主义保护来赢得他们的留下来的权利。根据定性访谈数据，我们表明，法律地位不稳定的人被敦促满足新自由主义融合要求，以避免被驱逐回其国籍国。采用“暴力连续体”作为分析切入点，