[Linganth] Anna Tucket on her book, Rules, Paper, Status

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
CaMP anthropology is happy to provide Dodom Kim's interview with Anna
Tucket about her book, Rules, Paper, Status.

https://campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

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.

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.
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