Vetters Larissa, Jacobs Carolien, Andreetta Sophie
Law & Anthropology Department, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany.
Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Leg Plur Crit Soc Anal. 2024 Jul 22;56(3):557-582. doi: 10.1080/27706869.2024.2366070. eCollection 2024.
This article builds on three of Keebet von Benda-Beckmann's core concepts, namely, legal pluralism, social security and relational social theory, to reflect on the place of law in lived migration orders, both in the global north and in the global south. To do this, we build on three empirical case studies from our respective fieldsites in Germany, Belgium and the DRC. These cases illustrate how 'thinking with Keebet's work' not only offers useful 'sensitizing concepts' for the empirical study of migration law and migration studies more broadly, but also provides a much-needed conceptual vocabulary to speak to and intervene in current debates in more doctrinal legal scholarship on global migration law. With this double aim in mind, we first build on a legal pluralism perspective to show how migration governance can be better understood through the prism of 'lived migration orders'. We then suggest rethinking state sovereignty, citizenship, and individual human rights in light of historical and newly emerging relational configurations. Finally, we suggest a new avenue for reconceptualizing migration governance beyond rights-based categorizations of migrants by paying more nuanced analytical attention to situations of uncertainty and how they contribute to social (in-)security.
本文基于基贝特·冯·本达-贝克曼的三个核心概念，即法律多元主义、社会保障和关系社会理论，来思考法律在全球北方和南方实际移民秩序中的地位。为此，我们以德国、比利时和刚果民主共和国各自实地考察点的三个实证案例研究为基础。这些案例表明，“运用基贝特的研究成果进行思考”不仅为更广泛的移民法实证研究和移民研究提供了有用的“敏感概念”，还为参与和介入当前更具理论性的全球移民法法律学术辩论提供了急需的概念词汇。出于这一双重目的，我们首先基于法律多元主义视角，展示如何通过“实际移民秩序”这一棱镜更好地理解移民治理。然后，我们建议根据历史和新出现的关系结构重新思考国家主权、公民身份和个人人权。最后，我们提出一条新途径，通过对不确定情况及其如何影响社会（不）安全给予更细致入微的分析关注，超越基于权利对移民进行分类的方式，重新构想移民治理。
