Rules, Paper, Status: Migrants and Precarious Bureaucracy in Contemporary Italy

by Anna Tuckett

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150360649X
• ISBN13: 9781503606494
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"