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Spatial shifts in migration governance: Public-private alliances in Swedish immigration administration

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  • Linn Axelsson
  • Nils Pettersson

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Non-state actors are increasingly involved in enforcing immigration policies. Of late, there has been growing recognition that greater involvement of non-state actors has contributed to reconfiguring migration governance in a spatial sense. Scalar literature conceptualises the involvement of non-state actors as a move by immigration authorities to use actors beyond the state to enforce immigration policies. Network-inspired analysis, on the other hand, draws attention to attempts by non-state actors to form alliances in order to influence immigration policy. In this paper, we set out to show that other spatial shifts are at play in contemporary migration governance. In order to make sense of these spatial shifts, we advance a reading of migration governance which aims to show how efforts to manage migration are the result of, and result in, strategic attempts by state and non-state actors to enrol others, establish a sense of presence and build relationships of proximity and reach. We provide one example of this, involving an administrative alliance between a Swedish government agency and two intermediary actors in labour migration: employers in the information-technology industry and immigration service providers. By drawing attention to spatial shifts in migration governance such as this, new light can be shed on the ways in which the governance of migration recasts relationships between state and non-state actors.

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  • Linn Axelsson & Nils Pettersson, 2021. "Spatial shifts in migration governance: Public-private alliances in Swedish immigration administration," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 39(7), pages 1529-1546, November.
  • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirc:v:39:y:2021:i:7:p:1529-1546
    DOI: 10.1177/23996544211043523
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