<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues,<div>CaMP anthropology is happy to provide Dodom Kim's interview with Anna Tucket about her book, Rules, Paper, Status.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://campanthropology.org" target="_blank">https://campanthropology.org</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Ilana</div><div><br></div><div>Press blurb: 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.</div><div><br></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.<span></span></p></div></div></div></div>