Governing Migration Through Paperwork : Legitimation Practices, Exclusive Inclusion and Differentiation /

To better understand migration governance and the concrete, daily practices of civil servants tasked with enforcing state laws and policies, it is important to focus on documents, which are core artefacts of bureaucratic work. These can include certificates, letters, reports, case files, decisions,...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Andreetta, Sophie (Contributor, Editor), Berg, Hanna (Contributor), Bierschenk, Thomas (Contributor), Borrelli, Lisa Marie (Contributor, Editor), Gargiulo, Enrico (Contributor), Lindberg, Annika (Contributor), Nakueira, Sophie (Contributor), Vetters, Larissa (Contributor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	In English.
Published:	New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2024]
Series:	Lifeworlds: Knowledges, Politics, Histories ; 6
Subjects:	Emigration and immigration law > Case studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction Governing Migration through Paperwork: Exclusive Inclusion, Differentiation and State Legitimacy
1. Administrative Guidelines as a Source of Immigration Law? Ethnographic Perspectives on Law at Work and in the Making
2. Paperwork Performances: Legitimating State Violence in the Swedish Deportation Regime
3. Municipal Undocumentedness: Paperwork and the Performativity of Population Registers in Italy
4. Writing for Different Audiences: Social Workers, Irregular Migrants and Fragmented Statehood in Belgian Welfare Bureaucracies
5. Governing through Paperwork: Examining the Regulatory Effects of Documentary Practices in a Refugee Settlement
6. Refugees in the Making: Durable Marks of the Nansen Passport in Contemporary Humanitarian Governance
Postscript Anthropology, Bureaucracy and Paperwork
Index