People‐Processing Capacity: The Origins and Development of Institutions to Render Forced Migrants as Cases in Canada and Sweden
本文提出“人员处理能力”概念，指国家将强制移民分类为案例并筛选“理想受害者”的能力。通过比较加拿大和瑞典的移民控制制度演变，揭示分类系统如何产生治理问题。
ABSTRACT States have invested heavily in controlling forced migration for decades, with mixed results. Research often focuses on deterrence, leading to a neglect of bureaucratic boundaries within borders. This article unpacks the unrecognized importance of people‐processing capacity: a state's ability to render forced migrants legible by categorizing them as cases and selecting those perceived as desirable victims. Due to the heterogeneous nature of claims and the agency of migrants, rendering migrants as cases is a deeply complicated process. Using a historical‐institutionalist framework, the article explores the role and historical development of people‐processing capacity through a comparison of the evolution of modern migration control in Canada and Sweden, two states with similar trajectories of capacity‐building but different guiding ideas for migration policy. The results trace the institutional roots of deservingness, reveal different ideals of vulnerable and adaptable refugees, and theorize how persistent governance problems emerge from classification systems intended to order migration.