Dear Anthropology Matters subscribers,
I would like to announce the publication of my new book Rules, Paper, Status: Migrants and Precarious Bureaucracy in Contemporary Italy, published by Stanford University Press.
This book may be of interest to colleagues working on migration, bureaucracy, documents and the state.
Best wishes,
Anna
[CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJG JPEG v62), quality = 75]Rules, Paper, Status
Migrants and Precarious Bureaucracy in Contemporary Italy
Anna Tuckett
30% discount code: CSL18RPS
http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/rules-paper-status
"This compelling book transports the reader into the maze of immigration law enforcement in Italy. A must-read for immigration scholars and anyone interested in the day-to-day workings of street-level bureaucrats and the myriad ways they make law and in the process, transform immigrants into 'cultural citizens.'"--Kitty Calavita, University of California, Irvine
"Anna Tuckett's lively and engaging book sheds new light on the confused relationship between migrants and Italian state bureaucracy, and the gaps between formal law and 'practical stuff.' Rules, Paper, Status makes a vital contribution to our understanding of the bureaucratic and legal anomalies produced by the current 'moral panic' in Europe concerning immigration."--Anthony Good, University of Edinburgh
Whether motivated by humanitarianism or concern over "porous" borders, dominant commentary on migration in Europe has consistently focused on clandestine border crossings. Much less, however, is known about the everyday workings of immigration law inside borders. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork in Italy, one of Europe's biggest receiving countries, Rules, Paper, Status moves away from polarized depictions to reveal how migration processes actually play out on the ground. Anna Tuckett highlights the complex processes of inclusion and exclusion produced through encounters with immigration law.
The statuses of "legal" or "illegal," which media and political accounts use as synonyms for "good" and "bad," "worthy" and "unworthy," are not created by practices of border-crossing, but rather through legal and bureaucratic processes within borders devised by governing states. Taking migrants' interactions with immigration regimes as its starting point, this book sheds light on the productive nature of legal and bureaucratic encounters and the unintended consequences they produce. Rules, Paper, Status argues that successfully navigating Italian immigration bureaucracy, which is situated in an immigration regime that is both exclusionary and flexible, requires and induces culturally specific modes of behavior. Exclusionary laws, however, can transform this social and cultural learning into the very thing that endangers migrants' right to live in the country.
Anna Tuckett is Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Brunel University
Stanford University Press | June 2018 | 192pp | 9781503606494 | PB | £18.99*
*Price subject to change.
Anna Tuckett
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