ABSTRACT The relationship between border and bureaucracy offers fertile ground to study how the border continues to affect the lives and movement of people. As epistemological and material sites, borders and their document networks work to produce categories of people. The production of border documents also creates various forms of mediator that traverse in and outside the state arena. Such fluidity of the documentary traffic thus generates a subversive economy that facilitates an unauthorized mobility, which undermines the efficiency of the state document itself. While the anthropology of border attempts to redefine the border’s spatio-temporality through examining border practices, state and border crossing populations remain the key actors. This article attempts to move away from the duality of the relationship between state and border dweller by investigating the politics of border mediation. It argues that bureaucratic ID documentation in Thailand has been a significant tool that not only defines the migrants, but also shapes the way in which the border is (re)made. While the aim of the bureaucratic document is to serve the state’s objective of border control, the circulation of documents has created extra-state industries, such as extortion, bribery and brokerage, that allow the fluid labourscape to flourish.

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纸张治理：调解文本边界和协商泰国的流动性

摘要 边界与官僚机构之间​​的关系为研究边界如何继续影响人们的生活和流动提供了沃土。作为认识论和物质站点，边界和它们的文档网络可以产生人的类别。边境文件的制作也创造了各种形式的调解人，他们在国家舞台内外穿行。因此，文件流量的这种流动性产生了一种颠覆性的经济，促进了未经授权的移动，从而破坏了国家文件本身的效率。虽然边境人类学试图通过检查边境实践来重新定义边境的时空性，但州和边境人口仍然是关键的参与者。本文试图通过考察边境调解的政治来摆脱国家与边境居民关系的二元性。它认为，泰国的官僚身份证明文件一直是一个重要的工具，它不仅定义了移民，而且塑造了（重新）制作边界的方式。虽然官僚文件的目的是为国家的边境控制目标服务，但文件的流通创造了额外的行业，如勒索、贿赂和经纪，使流动的劳动力景观蓬勃发展。