Paul Trauttmansdorff has published a new article in Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, together with Annalisa Pelizza (University of Bologna): "From embracement to attachment: Registering people on the move and the couplings of noncitizenship and territory”.
The article is openly accessible under: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23996544251322768
This article analyzes how people on the move encounter registration infrastructures on their journey to Europe. Through the lens of three empirical cases—registration in the Eurodac system, registration in the framework of the European temporary protection directive, and national registration of migrants on Hellenic islands—we explore what we term “noncitizenship-territory couplings.” The article develops the concept of “registration as attachment” to describe how sociotechnical procedures establish relationships between noncitizen subjects, mobility rights, and territorial space.