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Firewalls as a resource for resistance: separating border policing from social service provision in Sweden and the UK
Institute for Community Research and Development, University of Wolverhampton, UK.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5903-115X
Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), Department of Global Political Studies (GPS). Malmö University, Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3811-0892
2021 (English)In: Nordic Social Work Research, ISSN 2156-857X, E-ISSN 2156-8588, Vol. 11, no 2, p. 183-196Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Firewalls separate rights provision for undocumented migrants from the border policing of migration authorities. In this article, we compare how firewalls have been negotiated during recent years in Sweden and the UK. Firewalls have been partly strengthened in the UK as a result of the ‘Windrush scandal’. Simultaneously, firewalls have been increasingly contested in Sweden after the 2015 ‘long summer of migration’ as a result of continuously more repressive migration policies. On the basis of this detailed comparison, we argue that firewalls are a useful conceptual lens to understand migrant struggles and the development of migration policies. Moreover, we suggest that firewalls can be a useful resource for social service providers using their discretion to resist repressive migration governing at different levels and scales and for organizing political work by and for people at risk of deportation. 

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Taylor & Francis, 2021. Vol. 11, no 2, p. 183-196
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Firewalls, undocumented migration, border policing, human rights, social work
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Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-46237DOI: 10.1080/2156857x.2020.1862898ISI: 001025253700008Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85124726669OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-46237DiVA, id: diva2:1601948
Available from: 2021-10-11 Created: 2021-10-11 Last updated: 2023-12-13Bibliographically approved

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