ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the different bureaucratic regimes that British migrants encounter in Spain and France: migrants’ approaches to official procedures, or studied avoidance of them; and their understanding of and attitudes towards varieties of citizenship. In these different ways, the chapter further probes into migrants’ agency and their calculated negotiating of officialdom, as they attempt to secure residency or acquire citizenship through naturalisation. The chapter concludes with comparative comments on relevant Hispano-French differences and similarities in these spheres of action. While the previous chapter focussed on the actions of migrants gathered into campaign groups fighting a cause, this concentrates more on migrants as individuals trying to traverse an, at times, dark labyrinth.
