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Immigration Policies and the Control of Mobility

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The chapter analyses how immigrants are categorised according to their ethnicity, age, gender and skills. By providing an analysis of immigration policy documents in conjunction with census findings, the chapter reflects the way policy, police operations and national citizenship respond to demographic changes and perceptions of immigration.

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    Throughout the yeas FRONTEX has managed to perform a hegemonic role over the management of immigration on both national and European levels. In November 2014, Italy decided to terminate the Operation Mare Nostrum, namely a search and rescue operation for all migrants entering the Mediterranean in an unregulated manner. Mare Nostrum has been replaced by a FRONTEX-supported operation called Triton. Triton’s scope is limited; it addresses the flows of migrants towards Italy and not in the Mediterranean in general and most importantly is a border patrol and surveillance operation with no mandate to rescue any migrants who lives are in danger.

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    According to Mike Davis (2006, p. 62) the management of this type migrant labour can be found in the city state of Dubai where workers are granted “modular liberties based on the rigorous spatial segregation of economic functions and ethnically circumscribed social classes”. Total 99 % of the private workforce in Dubai is deportable non-citizens and they are legally bound to a single employer. See Mike Davis “Fear and Money in Dubai”, New Left Review, 41.

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Maronitis, K. (2017). Immigration Policies and the Control of Mobility. In: Postnationalism and the Challenges to European Integration in Greece. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46346-9_3

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