Rules, paper, status : migrants and precarious bureaucracy in contemporary Italy / Anna Tuckett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tuckett, Anna, author.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration.

Government policy.

Italy--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Italy.

Immigrants--Italy--Social conditions.

Immigrants.

Social conditions.

Emigration and immigration law--Italy.

Emigration and immigration law.

Bureaucracy--Italy.

Bureaucracy.

Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Immigrants--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xii, 178 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]

Summary:

Whether motivated by humanitarianism or concern over "porous" borders, contemporary debates on migration in Europe consistently focus on clandestine border crossings. Much less is known about the everyday workings of immigration law inside borders. Drawing on in-depth 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. 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. Anna Tuckett 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 Eve in the country. Book jacket.

Contents:

The centre

Working the gap : migrants' navigation of immigration bureaucracy

The rules of rule bending

Becoming an immigration adviser : self-fashioning through bureaucratic practice

Disjuncture in the documentation regime : the second generation's challenge to citizenship law

Stepping stone destinations : migration and disappointment.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Tuckett, Anna. Rules, paper, status.

ISBN:

9781503605404

150360540X

9781503606494

150360649X

OCLC:

1022084528