Governing Migration Through Paperwork

Sophie Andreetta is an FRS-FNRS Research Associate within the University of Liège. At the intersection of social-legal studies and the anthropology of the state, her journal publications delve into (non)citizens’ relationship to law and state institutions and the concrete implementation of public policies using ethnographic methods.

Introduction: Governing Migration through Paperwork: Legitimation Practices, Exclusive Inclusion and Differentiation

Sophie Andreetta and Lisa Marie Borrelli



Chapter 1. Administrative Guidelines as a Source of Immigration Law? Ethnographic Perspectives on Law at Work and in the Making

Larissa Vetters



Chapter 2. Paperwork Performances: Legitimating State Violence in the Swedish Deportation Regime

Anika Lindberg and Lisa Marie Borrelli



Chapter 3. Municipal Undocumentedness: Paperwork and the Performativity of Population Registers in Italy

Enrico Gargiulo



Chapter 4. Writing for Different Audiences: Social Workers, Irregular Migrants, and Fragmented Statehood in Belgian Welfare Bureaucracies

Sophie Andreetta



Chapter 5. Governing Through Paperwork: Examining the Regulatory Effects of Documentary Practices in a Refugee Settlement

Sophie Nakueira



Chapter 6. Refugees and in the Making: Durable Marks of the Nansen Passport in Contemporary Humanitarian Governance

Hanna Berg



Postscript: Anthropology, Bureaucracy and Paperwork

Thomas Bierschenk



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