Migration Control and Access to Welfare av Marry-Anne (University of Bergen Norway) Karlsen

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<P>The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.</P><P>Over the past decades, European states have increasingly limited irregular migrants¿ access to welfare services as a tool for migration control. Still, irregular migrants tend to have access to certain basic services, although frequently of a subordinate, arbitrary, and unstable kind. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Norway, this book sheds light on ambiguities in the state¿s response to irregular migration that simultaneously cut through law, policy, and practice. Carefully examining the complex interplay between the geopolitical management of territory and the biopolitical management of populations, the book argues that irregularised migrants should be understood as <I>precariously included </I>in the welfare state rather than simply excluded. The notion of precarious inclusion