Polina Manolova - (Re)bordering through Papers

Re bordering through Papers Differential Inclusion in the Intra EU Migration Regime Research Factory Viadrina Center B ORDERS IN MOTION Polina Manolova PhD University of T bingen Wed June 01 2022 16 15 17 45 In this talk I look at the relationship between migration governance temporalities of arrival and labour market precarity in the consolidation of a particular regime of subor dinated inclusion of EU migrants Drawing on ethnographic and activist research with an ethnically diverse group of Bulgarian migrants in Britain and Germany I explore how a recent turn to politics of bureaucratic bordering in West European states unmakes the formal rights of EU citizenship and reduces incorporation to pathways of irregularity The project takes up the methodological challenge to expand a narrow legalistic lens on migration governance by unpacking the everyday sites of contestation where migrants enact their claims for belonging and deservingness Furthermore my analysis reflects on the implicati