CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Van den Boogaard, Moniek |
|---|---|
| Title | Precarious Waiting: Time, Gender and 'Illegality' for Denied Asylum Seekers in The Netherlands |
| Summary | This study sets out to discuss the different ways in which restrictive laws and policies regarding denied asylum seekers in the Netherlands produce precarity. Following Nicholas De Genova’s (2002) work on migrant ‘illegality’, this study aims to critically examine national immigration laws and policies, which is crucial to studies of migration in general, and ‘illegal’ migration in particular. This study focusses on how Dutch laws and policies – particularly the 1998 Linking Act – produce precariousness in denied asylum seekers’ lives, with a particular focus on the production of forced dependency and passivity as gendered categories of precarity. In other words, this study aims to highlight how Dutch laws and policies targeting denied asylum seekers produce passive, dependent and waiting subjects. The dimension of time will be an important element in this research, because it allows insights into the ways in which the experience of waiting affects this group of denied asylum seekers. I will analyze their experiences of waiting using the concept of liminality to gain an understanding in to the ways in which “being stuck” in this precarious liminal phase shapes notions of social personhood, marks them as abject Others, and positions them in larger systems of unequal power relations. I will show how patriarchal gender roles and racialized assumptions of the migrant Other shape this process of precarization and denied asylum seekers’ experiences of inhabiting a space of ‘illegality’. This study aims to contribute to the scholarship on ‘illegal’ migration an analysis combining a critical examination of laws and policies, and the subjectivities they produce. Additionally, I have aimed to underscore the importance of studying the dimension of time in studies of migration because it highlights dimensions of power, and provides a better understanding into migrants’ lived experiences. |
| Supervisor | Helms, Elissa |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/boogaard_moniek.pdf |
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