{"product_id":"negotiating-movement-von-xolani-tshabalala","title":"Negotiating Movement","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe increase in undocumented migration into South  Africa has been met with conserted , if non-uniform,  efforts by the state to regulate it. What happens  when undocumented migrants routinely interact with  state officials responsible for policing them? Do  officials eventually forget to enforce the law and  begin to befriend their foe? Rather than present a  state that has been ¿cannibalized'' by society, the  findings from ethnographic research done in  Johannesburg paint a complex picture. This narrative  is a journey into the world of police culture, the  monopolistic violence of the state, bribery on the  beat, extortion, predatory authority, opportunism,  negotiation, gift-giving, networking, and other  forms of interaction. The successive and sometimes  simultaneous appeal to these different registers by  both law enforcement agents and undocumented  migrants during everyday immigration policing in the  urban spaces constantly shifts, re-draws and blurs  the boundaries between the formal and the informal,  the legitimate and the illegitimate, and between the  state and society. How, then, does one read the  construction of the modern African state?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783844333978\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eEveryday Immigration Policing in Johannesburg\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783844333978","offer_id":39470009188445,"sku":"9783844333978","price":68.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/a8522d09-717e-40e4-8e84-e38adec451d1.jpg?v=1759036982","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/negotiating-movement-von-xolani-tshabalala","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}