Stealing and Redacting: Fieldwork among Transnational Thieves in Eastern Romania

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Title	Stealing and Redacting
Subtitle	Fieldwork among Transnational Thieves in Eastern Romania
Contributor	Trine Mygind Korsby(author)
DOI	https://doi.org/10.53288/0466.1.14
Landing page	https://punctumbooks.com/titles/redacted-writing-in-the-negative-space-of-the-state/
License	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Copyright	Trine Mygind Korsby
Publisher	punctum books
Published on	2024-10-27
Long abstract	The chapter introduces Sebastian who is a Romanian man in his twenties with extensive experience as a transnational thief. Taking a point of departure in a tense meeting between Sebastian and some of his illegal business associates, the chapter starts by describing the meticulous practices of transnational stealing, in the form of stealing from clothes stores in other EU countries. Engaging with the volume’s overall focus on "redaction," the chapter then focuses on Sebastian’s family dynamics and shows how his family manages their knowledge about his illegal activities abroad. I argue that redaction can function as an analytical concept to capture how my informants "redact" by concealing different aspects of their illegal enterprises within their families. Simultaneously, the chapter shows the ways in which I, as the anthropologist, attempt to capture these fieldwork moments, centered around illegal activity. By analyzing my own practice of "redacting" my fieldnotes during fieldwork, I suggest that the concept of redaction can be used to illuminate and critically analyze the practices that we as anthropologists engage in during fieldwork – in the name of safety and anonymity – in order to protect our fields, our informants and ourselves.
Page range	pp. 197–204
Print length	8 pages
Language	English (Original)
Keywords	transnational crime Romania theft migration family dynamics ethnography

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Trine Mygind Korsby

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Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology at University of Copenhagen

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1904-9352

Trine Mygind Korsby is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. She has researched the themes of sex work, sex work facilitation, human trafficking, transnational crime, and criminal livelihoods in Romania and Italy since 2007. Her recent publications include “Complex Intimacies: Sex Work, Human Trafficking and Romance between Italy and the Black Sea Coast of Romania” (in A Sea of Transience, Berghahn Books, 2023) and participation in the editorial collective of Transnational Street Business: Migrants in the Informal Urban Economy (with Camilla Ravnbøl and Anja Simonsen, Migration and Society, 2023).