RT Article
T1 Challenges in researching violent deportation practices and working with street-level bureaucrats
JF Research methods in deportation
SP 83
OP 100
A1 Borrelli, Lisa Marie
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1939067723
AB Studies on so-called irregular migration have discussed power inequalities and asymmetries that can be disclosed when analysing asylum encounters, decision-making practices of bureaucrats within the migration and border regime and deportation practices. As researchers within such a field, we find ourselves immersed in structural violence, bureaucratic actions and individual stories that shape migration regimes. The chapter discusses ethical challenges of researcher positionality and transparency when it comes to research in public administration tasked with the deportation of non-citizens. Instead of ruling such research out, I elaborate on the question ‘on whose side are we on?’ and how we could deal with situations where not all individuals that we encounter are informed about our role. Based on ethnographic material, which includes observations and interviews within the Swedish and Swiss deportation regimes, I connect these issues to questions of knowledge production to support critical perspectives on organisational ethnography.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 97-100
SN 9781035313105
K1 Deportation
K1 research ethics
K1 Ethnography
K1 Public Administration
K1 Migration regime
K1 Bureaucracy