Out of the Dark: Enrico Gargiulo

29. Mai 2024

Foto: UHH/Kollmann

Herzliche Einladung zum nächsten "Out of the Dark" mit Enrico Gargiulo zum Thema "Internal Borders: Navigating Inclusion and Exclusion in Italy and Germany" und einem Kommentar von Daniel Manwire am 5. Juni um 18:00 Uhr (VMP9, S30).

Abstract:

Registration promotes emancipation: by acquiring a legal identity, a person becomes a formal member of a community and obtains rights. However, registration also enables and reproduces hierarchies and subordinate inclusion, especially when it becomes a selective device. Drawing on research on municipal registration in Italy, this talk reveals the ambiguities of registration as an internal border: in particular, how recognition, or conversely the lack of it, is used to exclude or “omit” people, thus preventing them from being fully autonomous in a legal and material sense.

Enrico Gargiulo teaches Sociology at the University of Bologna, Italy. He researches citizenship, registration and identification, demographic devices, population enactment, administrative discretion, security, and police forces. Gargiulo has published the book Invisible Borders: Administrative Barriers and Citizenship in Italian Municipalities in 2021.