Ethical brokerage and self-fashioning in Italian immigration bureaucracy

Tuckett, Anna (2018) Ethical brokerage and self-fashioning in Italian immigration bureaucracy. Critique of Anthropology, 38 (4). ISSN 0308-275X

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In increasingly bureaucratised immigration regimes, experts who can assist migrants in their navigation of immigration law are in high demand. This article examines the role of community brokers – migrants who are self-styled immigration advisers – within the Italian immigration regime. Contributing to recent anthropological work which challenges the common characterisation of brokers as immoral or amoral, I show how becoming a migration broker is rooted in ethical projects of self-betterment that enable migrants to challenge their legally and economically marginalised position in Italian society.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://journals.sagepub.com/home/coa
Additional Information:	© 2018 by SAGE Publications
Divisions:	Anthropology
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration
Date Deposited:	15 Jun 2018 15:52
Last Modified:	01 Oct 2025 04:18
Funders:	Economic and Social Research Council
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/88362

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