For a number of migrant actors, bureaucratic processes related to immigration constitute the
greater part of the route toward their aspired destination and significantly shape their …

Drawing from ethnographic research conducted with binational heterosexual couples
negotiating their legitimacy in the face of immigration bureaucracy in Belgium and Italy, I …

Encounters between street-level bureaucrats and the so-called “client of the state”–here the
migrant individual with precarious legal status–are characterized by great power …

Deportation regimes mobilise coercive state powers, but also entail extensive paperwork,
the latter of which remains underexplored in deportation studies. Building on ethnographic …

In order to better understand migration governance and the concrete, daily practices of civil
servants tasked to enforce state laws and policies, this special issue focuses on the core …

What makes routine maternal and neonatal health data to be 'good quality'? That depends
on whom you ask–the people collecting and reporting these data across health system …

Based on an ethnographic study of Canadian women's intimate relationships with a
racialized man from the Global South, this article focuses on their experiences of the spousal …

Abstract Knowledge infrastructures produce global objects such as Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs). They solidify how problems are formulated, orient us to …

This article considers the creation and activation of certification documents codifying the
capture-event and moment of enslavement of Reche-Mapuche people during the …

Global health metrics come into being in complex circumstances. Through ethnography that
focuses closely on the forces driving uneven obstetric case reporting in a government …