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.
Author(s): Enrico Gargiulo
Series: (Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series
Edition: 2020
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 276
City: Cham
Acknowledgements
Praise for Invisible Borders
Contents
List of Tables
1: Introduction
Reference
2: Varieties of Borders
2.1 From Territorial to Status Borders
2.2 Territory and Membership Statuses
2.3 Knowing, Recognising, Identifying
2.4 Selecting and Stratifying
2.5 Demographic Tools as Political Devices
2.6 Policing and Knowing the Population
References
3: The Borders of Local Citizenship
3.1 A Multilevel System of Statuses
3.2 Statuses That Include, but Differentially
3.3 The Political Economy of Differential Inclusion
3.4 A Regime of Statuses
3.5 The Meanings of Local Citizenship
3.6 Local Citizenship from the Past to Nowadays
The First Stage of Local Citizenship
Controlling Mobility at the Local Level
Knowing the Population at the Local Level
Local Citizenship between the Rise and Decline of the Welfare State
References
4: Residency and Its Meanings
4.1 The Form of Local Memberships
4.2 The Meanings and Contents of Local Membership
4.3 The Slow Institution of a Population Registry in Italy
4.4 The Population Registry between Challenges and Changes: From the Nineties to the Housing Plan
4.5 The Registry Office between Critique and Changes: From Minniti to Salvini
4.6 Struggles Over the Meanings of Residency
References
5: The Functions of Residency
5.1 Residency as a Duty
5.2 Residency as a Right
5.3 The Logic of Registration and Its Implications
5.4 The Chain of Command of Registration
5.5 Residency between Assistance and Control
References
6: Administrative Borders
6.1 Using Registration to Shape the Local Population
“Inflating” the Population
Making the Poor Invisible
6.2 Exclusion from Residency in Contemporary Italy
Municipal Ordinances as a Power Device
A Continuous Emergency
Excluding from Residency Through Ordinances and Other Administrative Tools
6.3 Mechanisms of Exclusion from Residency
6.4 Varieties of Residency Refusal
6.5 Administrative Discretion in Action
References
7: Administrative Borders, between Effects and Forms of Resistance
7.1 Purposes and Targets of the Exclusion from Residency
7.2 Anatomy of Administrative Separation
7.3 Exit, Voice, Loyalty: Coping with Administrative Borders
7.4 A Quick Look Beyond Italy
References
8: Conclusive Remarks: What Is at Stake in Residency?
References
References
Index
