Abstract
Approaching the discussion on the production of migrant illegality, this paper analyzes the Spanish case focusing the attention on the consequences of the relations between the logics of political power and economic power in the categorization of undocumented migrants. The first part of the paper briefly reviews the latest and most outstanding contributions to the critical study of illegality, examining which dimensions participate in the process of illegalization according to these proposals. In the second part I suggets that in the age of neoliberalism the production of migrant illegality can be understood as a process of accumulation by dispossession attending to the relation established between the State and capital. Finally, the process of illegalization that has taken place in Spain in the last decades is explored.
Highlights
Approaching the discussion on the production of migrant illegality, this paper analyzes the Spanish case focusing the attention on the consequences of the relations between the logics of political power and economic power in the categorization of undocumented migrants
En el primer apartado se revisan de forma somera algunas de las aportaciones más relevantes que se han realizado en el estudio crítico de la producción de irregularidad en los últimos años, prestando atención a las dimensiones que según las distintas interpretaciones participan en este proceso
En esta propuesta se plantea que en la producción de irregularidad migratoria actúa por un lado la ley y las políticas de inmigración definiendo qué casos son considerados residencias y entradas no autorizadas, estableciendo a los nacionales de qué Estados afecta y determinando las consecuencias legales de esta situación y, por otro lado, pero ahondando en la diferenciación del migrante irregular, actúa el papel que se reserva en el nuevo régimen de acumulación flexible al trabajo precario y que, junto a otros sectores de la población, desempeñan los trabajadores migrantes en situación administrativa irregular
Summary
Approaching the discussion on the production of migrant illegality, this paper analyzes the Spanish case focusing the attention on the consequences of the relations between the logics of political power and economic power in the categorization of undocumented migrants.
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