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Dr. Anna Tuckett is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Brunel University London, within the Department of Social Sciences and Communications, College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences. She earned her PhD from the London School of Economics in 2014 and specializes in political and legal anthropology, with a focus on migration in Italy and the UK. Her research explores how migrants experience and negotiate state bureaucracy, law, and integration policies in everyday life.
Her research interests lie at the intersection of state power, legal status, and migrant agency. Anna investigates how immigration laws are enacted on the ground, emphasizing the ethical, bureaucratic, and social challenges faced by migrants. Her work critically engages with themes of citizenship, belonging, compliance, and the informal practices that emerge under restrictive immigration regimes.
Anna's recent publications reveal a consistent focus on bureaucratic encounters, citizenship testing, and the lived realities of migration policy. Her work spans ethnographic studies in both Italy and the UK, analyzing how austerity, legal precarity, and state outsourcing shape migrant experiences. She explores topics such as 'compliant rule bending', ethical brokerage, and the emotional labor of managing legal status, offering nuanced insights into the anthropology of the state and legality.
Scientific Awards:
- William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology (2019) for her book Rules, Paper, Status: Migrants and Precarious Bureaucracy in Contemporary Italy
Anna has conducted ESRC-funded research, including a collaborative project on the ethnography of advice in the context of a declining welfare state. Her work often involves fieldwork with migrants, citizenship instructors, and informal brokers. She has not advised any named students in the provided texts, but her research contributes significantly to academic and public debates on migration, law, and state-society relations. She has no known lab or team affiliations mentioned, but her independent and collaborative ethnographic projects demonstrate sustained engagement with critical social issues.
