MOBILE - Mobility Law Open Lab with Federica Infantino

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This presentation focuses on the involvement of private companies in international migration governance, a puzzling topic that has been inspiring multidisciplinary bodies of academic literature. Federica Infantino's research has tackled that topic from the perspective of implementation practices. She has analyzed migration and border control policy instruments such as EU visa policy, immigration detention, deportation, and asylum policies.For the last ten years, she has conducted in-depth ethnographic research in private companies (such as G4S, Mitie, VFS Global, TLS Contact, Serco) that implement those policies.This presentation aims at contributing to the debates at Mobile about legal infrastructures and global mobility by questioning the relationship between private companies and laws according to three aspects namely law application, law making, and law circumventing. Finally, Federica Infantino will shed light on the (mainly informal) role of private companies in affecting decisions and change in public organizations regardless of legal frameworks.