Making citizens legible: legacies of population registration systems in post-socialist cities.

The distinction between what is defined as international or internal migration depends on the (in)stability of the borders that surround and encapsulate nation-states. Simplistically, the former operates on the basis of individuals moving between one nation-state and another while the latter represents movement within the borders of one nation-state. The aim of this working paper is to contribute to the limited amount of literature on the “forgotten migrants”: those that migrate internally within the borders of their own country or nation-state (Laczko, 2008).

Making citizens legible: legacies of population registration systems in post-socialist cities.

by Craig Hatcher

Publisher: University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, 2011

Hatcher C. 2011. Making citizens legible: legacies of population registration systems in post-socialist cities. Zürich, Switzerland: University of Zürich

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English

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