State work and the testing concours of citizenship
Volume: 71, Issue: 3, Pages: 556 - 571
Published: Apr 21, 2020
Abstract
Anyone trying to be a citizen has to pass through a set of practices trying to be a state. This paper investigates some of the ways testing practices calibrate citizens, and in doing so, perform “the state.” The paper focuses on three forms of citizenship testing, which it considers exemplary forms of “state work,” and which all, in various ways, concern “migration.” First, the constitution of a “border crossing,” which requires an identity test...
Paper Details
Title
State work and the testing concours of citizenship
Published Date
Apr 21, 2020
Volume
71
Issue
3
Pages
556 - 571
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