To better understand migration governance and the concrete, daily practices of civil servants tasked with enforcing state laws and policies, it is important to focus on documents, which are core artefacts of bureaucratic work. These can include certificates, letters, reports, case files, decisions, internal guidelines and judgements in both digital and paper form. Based on ethnographic studies in various geographical and bureaucratic contexts, this collection shows how civil servants produce statehood, restrict migrants' movements and engage with migrants' strategies to make themselves legible. It contributes to the study of the state as documentary practice and highlights the role of paperwork as a powerful practice of migration control.

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Introduction: Governing Migration through Paperwork: Exclusive Inclusion, Differentiation and State Legitimacy
1. Administrative Guidelines as a Source of Immigration Law? Ethnographic Perspectives on Law at Work and in the Making
2. Paperwork Performances: Legitimating State Violence in the Swedish Deportation Regime
3. Municipal Undocumentedness: Paperwork and the Performativity of Population Registers in Italy
4. Writing for Different Audiences: Social Workers, Irregular Migrants and Fragmented Statehood in Belgian Welfare Bureaucracies
5. Governing through Paperwork: Examining the Regulatory Effects of Documentary Practices in a Refugee Settlement
6. Refugees in the Making: Durable Marks of the Nansen Passport in Contemporary Humanitarian Governance
Postscript: Anthropology, Bureaucracy and Paperwork
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