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Invisible Borders - Administrative Barriers and Citizenship in the Italian Municipalities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Invisible Borders - Administrative Barriers and Citizenship in the Italian Municipalities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series
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This book analyses residency, a form of municipal membership that
plays a strategic role in administrative processes in Italy.
Residency is a two-faced juridical status: a means for exercising
rights and moving freely within a state territory and, at the same
time, a tool of control that operates through identification and
registration. Gargiulo investigates residency both historically and
theoretically, showing that the status of resident is a special
kind of border, namely, a status border, which draws the lines of
local citizenship. By explaining that the mechanisms of exclusion
from residency work as administrative barriers, and showing their
aims and effects in terms of civic stratification and differential
inclusion, this book contributes to the debates on local
citizenship, borders, and discretionary power. ''While the legal
concepts of (un)authorized presence and citizenship in bounded
territorial states govern how we envision "immigrants" and debate
their treatment, this perceptive book raises novel issues. Local
residency registration, studied with rich material from Italy,
regulates access to socially distributed resources, and shapes
stratification of labor. The case made in this book is original,
penetrating, and theoretically insightful. Scholars of migration
will want to read this exceptional work.'' - Josiah Heyman,
University of Texas at El Paso, USA ''Enrico Gargiulo has made an
important addition to our sociological understanding of the ways in
which states and individuals relate to one another. The humble,
often taken-for-granted status of "resident" turns out to be a
major pathway to rights and privileges for individuals who have it;
those without it may be legal non-persons who barely exist in the
eyes of the state. This book is a major contribution to our
expanding appreciation of the many kinds of borders, both physical
and conceptual, that shape our relationships with the social and
political world.'' - John Torpey, Presidential Professor of
Sociology and History, Director, Ralph Bunche, Institute for
International Studies, CUNY Graduate Center, USA
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