Law, Registration, and the State: Making Identities through Space, Place, and Movement

This book provides an original and compelling analysis of registration as a dynamic process which makes and unmakes legal identities.

Critical legal and socio-legal scholarship tends to assume that registration is a textually mediated act of statecraft which governs through the technology of writing. Taking a different approach, this book develops movement as socio-legal method to illustrate the legal, social, and bureaucratic layers of movement which unfold in everyday engagements with the ...