Enacting migration through data practices

Introduction to an edited special issue (SI) based on presentations at a workshop, Peopling ‘Europe’ through Data Practices, organized by the members of the ARITHMUS project as part of the study of how methodological changes in the production of population statistics within the EU affect the enactment of populations as objects of government. The contributions study data practices through which the people of Europe are enumerated, classified, narrated, quantified, territorialized, visualized and imagined into being as knowable categories of people, such as citizens, workers, consumers, travellers, minorities, and so on.