Power in Vulnerability: A Multi-Dimensional Review of Migrants’ Vulnerabilities (Studien zur Migrations- und Integrationspolitik)

Contents
Contributors
Prologue
Part I Theoretical Framing of this Volume
1 The Accumulation of Vulnerability Aspects in the Figure of the Migrant: A Theoretical Approach
	1 Introduction
	2 Defining a Vulnerability Concept
	3 The Other Side: ‘Vulnerantality’
	4 Perceiving Vulnerability as a Possibility?
	5 Concretisation of Vulnerability Aspects
		5.1 Sociality
		5.2 Culturality
		5.3 Corporality
		5.4 Liminality
		5.5 Structurality
	6 Vulnerability of the Migrant
	7 How Dealing with the Foreign Other Creates a Vulnerable Situation
	8 Conclusion
	References
Part II Migrants’ Vulnerabilities and the Practices of Migration Regulation
2 Vulnerable by Category: A Critical Assessment of Constructions of Vulnerability in International Refugee Law
	1 Introduction
	2 Vulnerability: Definition and Usage in Human Rights Law
	3 Vulnerability in the Refugee Definition
	4 The Benefits of Vulnerability
	5 Criticism of Vulnerability and Vulnerability Criteria
	6 Conclusion: Are There Alternatives?
	References
3 Whose Vulnerability? EU Identity Formation Processes and the Risks of Migration
	1 Introduction
	2 The Complexity of the EUropean Discourse on Migration…
	3 …and an Adequate Theoretical and Analytical Framework for Approaching It
	4 Risks and Cross-Border Movement: Defining the Other, Defining the Self
		4.1 The Human-Centred Strand of Discourse: Migrants as Vulnerable Reference Objects
		4.2 The Border-Centred Strand of Discourse: Migrants as Risk Bearers
	5 Conclusions
	References
4 Voices from Liminality: Civil Society Search and Rescue Organisations as Agents of Migration De-Securitisation
	1 Development of Search and Rescue Efforts in the Mediterranean
	2 A Flawed System—Effects on Migrants’ Vulnerabilities
	3 SAR NGOs as Mediators of Migrants’ Vulnerabilities
	4 Conclusion
	References
Part III Vulnerabilisation of Specific Migrant Communities Through Dysfunctional Protection
5 A Claim for Agency: From Guest to Host in Jordan’s Refugee Camps—Notes from the Field
	1 Introduction
	2 Initial Research Design: The “Alternative Mode of Governance” Framework
	3 Field Access and Institutional Framework
	4 Reflection on Access to Azraq and Za’atari and Research (Re)planning
	5 Re-orienting Our Study in Azraq
	6 Agency and Space
	7 Complicating Power Relations: Azraq as an Assemblage
	8 Conclusion: Lessons Learned
	References
6 When Law Exacerbates Vulnerability: The Case of Undocumented Migrant Prostitutes Under the German Prostitutes Protection Act of 2017
	1 Introduction
	2 Prostitution legislation in Germany: From the Prostitutes Act of 2002 to the Prostitutes Protection Act of, 2017
		2.1 The 2002 Act Regulating the Legal Situation of Prostitutes (Prostitution Act)
		2.2 The 2017 Prostitutes Protection Act
		2.3 The Prostitutes Protection Act and Undocumented Migrant Prostitutes
	3 Conclusion
	References
7 Germany, a Gay H(E)aven? Heteronormativity in LGBTIQ + Asylum Cases
	1 Introduction
	2 Conceptual Framework
		2.1 “Understanding of (doing) Gender” According to Dölling
		2.2 “Migration Violence Nexus"
	3 Fleeing into Violence
		3.1 The Credibility Test in the Asylum Procedure
		3.2 Locating Violence in the LGBTIQ + Asylum Process
	4 Conclusion
	References
Part IV Persisting Vulnerabilities in Reception Societies: Cases from Germany
8 Vulnerabilisation of Refugees: Covid-19—Related Experiences from Accommodation Centres in Germany
	1 Introduction
	2 Vulnerabilities and Vulnerabilisation of Refugees
	3 Vulnerabilities in the Context of Refugee Accommodation
	4 Collective Accommodation Centres During Covid-19 Pandemic: Women’s Experiences
	5 Conclusion and Moving Forward
	References
9 Educational Inequalities, Vulnerability for Discrimination and the Politics of School Change in Germany as a Post-migration Society
	1 Introduction
	2 Vulnerability In Social Relations of Difference and Inequality
	3 New Governance and the Silence Around Social Power Relations: A Discourse Analysis of Policy Documents
	4 Struggling for Socially Just Education in Day-to-Day School Life: Evaluation of a Teacher Training Programme
	5 Conclusion
	References
	Documents cited in the text (in chronological order):
10 “They Are Stumbling Around Quite Helplessly”: How Supporters of Refugee Families Frame Vulnerability and Agency Relating to Childcare
	1 Introduction
	2 Volunteers as Stakeholders in Implementing Integration Policy
	3 Conceptual Framework: Framing Vulnerability and Agency
	4 Methodology
	5 Findings
		5.1 Framing Problems and Needs
		5.2 Enhancing Agency?
	6 Conclusion
	References
11 Vulnerability and Agency in the Asymmetric Relationship Between Refugees and Their Volunteer Supporters: A Critical Assessment of Germany’s ‘Welcome Culture’
	1 Introduction
	2 The Interplay of Agency and Vulnerability: Looking Through the Theoretical Lens of the Agency and Vulnerability Approaches
	3 Context Matters: Asymmetry and Status as Vulnerant Factors During and After Arrival
	4 Time Matters: Changing Vulnerabilities Between Arrival and Successive Settlement
	5 Interview Based Analysis of Refugees’ Agency Within the Social Context of their Interactions with Volunteer-Supporters.
	6 Upon Arrival: Delegation of Agency in an Exceptional Humanitarian Situation
	7 From Arrival to Settlement: Re-Gaining Agency
	8 Conclusion and Recommendations
	References
Part V Epilogue
12 A Case for Dark Horse Thinking? Re-Imagining Group Asylum
	1 Introduction
	2 The Timeliness for Paradigm Change in the Refugee Regime
	3 The Trifecta of Protection Space Restrictions
	4 Riding the Dark Horse: Re-Thinking the Current Refugee Regime
	5 Conclusion
	References