Living and dying with the state: The Netherlands according to Egyptians in Amsterdam

Ruijtenberg, W.D. (2024)

Doctoral Thesis

In this dissertation, I draw on twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork with Egyptians in Amsterdam to study how the nationalization of our imagination and social-legal and material infrastructures mediates social life. I describe how, just like the group of people categorized as Egyptian in Amsterdam is diverse, the Dutch state is too, consisting of a a range of images, laws, organizations, and people that embody them. I argue that this Dutch state multiple structures almost all aspects of life, but ultimately cannot define who we are, or what we do.

• Migration
• The state multiple
• Life and death

• All authors: Ruijtenberg, W.D.
• Supervisor: Spierenburg, M.; Meijl, T. van; De Koning, A.
• Committee: Barendregt, B.; Grasseni, C.; Anderson, B.; Schinkel, W.; Sonneveld, N.
• Qualification: Doctor (dr.)
• Awarding Institution: Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University
• Date: 2024-05-28
• Sponsorship: Horizon 2020(H2020)
• Grant number: 640074