MigMan · Rejected by all? Managing (Un)desired Migration through the Expulsion and Repatriation process. The case of Portuguese in France
Horizon Europe — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2024-01-01 → 2025-12-31
- EU contribution
- €195,915
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF
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Results in brief
Rejected by all? Managing (Un)desired Migration through the Expulsion and Repatriation process. The case of Portuguese in France
The MigMan project is a critical and conceptually informed analysis of the mechanisms for regulating, managing, and controlling international migratory movements during the 20th century. It identifies and conceptualizes a model of migratory (non-)desirability, based on the interplay of perspectives, interests, and interventions of origin, transit, and destination states, as well as the role played by a variety of public and private institutions. The issue of migrant rejection and return—a pressing societal concern—is addressed through a historical, comparative, and transnational case study focusing on the expulsion and repatriation practices affecting Portuguese migrants in four French cities: Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux, and Rouen during the interwar period. This historical analysis is based on the unprecedented consultation and cross-referencing of archival sources from France, Spain, and Portugal. The project combines the use of written historical archives with the creation and construction of a database, allowing an in-depth examination of the procedures of rejection and return of Portuguese migrants during the interwar years. Beyond quantifying the observed phenomena, the exploitation of cross-referenced data from diverse sources has made it possible to explore complex social and administrative dynamics.
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Project objective
Based upon analysis of the expulsion and repatriation practices applied to Portuguese migrants in four French cities (Bordeaux, Lyon, Le Havre, and Paris), from a gender-privileged perspective, the core MigMan objective involves rethinking the management of undesired migrations during the interwar years. Interweaving the different interests between the countries of origin (Portugal), host (France), and transit (Spain), this seeks to grasp just why and how states decided to expel or repatriate Portuguese migrants. What actors were involved and what justifications did they provide? Who were these expelled and repatriated migrants? The project will deploy an innovative perspective of the undesirability concept, through applying Mezzadra’s concept of internal bordering and differential inclusion to analyze the processes of interaction ongoing among actors of subjection and subjectivation and to identify the factors for decision-making in accordance with the study locations. The interdisciplinarity also extends to recourse to never before consulted and interconnected archives in three countries (France, Portugal, and Spain), to historical methodologies (transnational and entangled methodologies) in conjunction with the digital humanities (with database building, spatiotemporal analysis and geovisualization).
Original text from CORDIS.
Participants
- ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE DE LYON · LyonCoordinatorFrance
Links
- View on CORDIS
- DOI: 10.3030/101106210
- https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/documents/downloadPublic?documentIds=080166e50ec9b281&appId=PPGMS
- https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/documents/downloadPublic?documentIds=080166e525af9ed2&appId=PPGMS
Data: CORDIS, © European Union