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Encounters between street-level bureaucrats and the so-called “client of the state” – here the migrant individual with precarious legal status – are characterized by great power imbalances. The dependency relationships that emerge out of public administrative encounters need to be understood as spaces of continuous asymmetrical negotiations. Emotions play a crucial role, not only as a translation of how migrants and bureaucrats mutually shape, contest, and reproduce migration control, but also as a strategic component and a tool for negotiation. Supported by ethnographic data from a Swiss Cantonal Migration Office and a Swedish Border Police Unit, collected between 2016 and 2017, I argue that emotions interweave all migrant-bureaucrat interactions. Their analysis discloses not only the emotional labour of migration enforcement, but also how it is translated into bureaucratically enacted practices, which include physical force, vocal exchanges, documents and spatial means, leading to what Walters (2006) coined “political economies of violence” (438).
Keywords: migration, ethnography, emotions, street-level theory, violence, bureaucracy, migration, ethnographie, émotions, bureaucratie de la rue, violence
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This article examines the experience of activism by individuals who use personal testimonials delivered in a public forum to advocate for the social inclusion of their sexual and gender communities. We describe the experience of activists from three social groups who are the target of stigma and discrimination due to their sexual identity, sexual practices, gender expression or the development of their bodies: people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer or intersex (LGBTQI), people living with HIV and people with sex work experience – and their intersections. A political, sensitive and intersectional conception of community is put forward in order to capture the transversal aspects of this militancy while highlighting the singularities of the multiple perspectives that compose it. We conclude by noting similarities between such community testimonials and twentieth century feminist interventions and the epistemic and mobilization challenges they raise.
Keywords: témoignage public, militantisme, LGBTQI, VIH/SIDA, travail du sexe, communauté, intervention féministe, public testimonial, activism, LGBTQI, HIV/AIDS, sex work, community, feminist intervention
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