Tobias G Eule
Biographic Data
| ID | 137782 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tobias G Eule |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tobias G |
| FAMILY NAME | Eule |
| SIGNATURE | EULE T G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bern |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6973-2715 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Informed Non-Use
This article explores why individuals in vulnerable positions may not mobilise available legal avenues to protect themselves from harm, despite being aware of their existence. Drawing on data relating to precarious housing situations in Berlin and Zurich, we argue that the assumption that mobilising the law would improve the situation of individuals is not always accurate. We present three dimensions of non-mobilisation that prevent individuals f…
Advice as a Vocation? Politics, Managerialism and State Funding in the Swiss Refugee Support Community
Refugees often find themselves in precarious situations when trying to claim asylum. This paper examines the changing nature of legal advice in Switzerland, where a new law is drastically altering the asylum regime to a more centralised and tightly managed procedure. This reform directly affects the refugee advice community, which sees an increase in state funding opportunities paired with a higher demand for quality standards and 'managerial' pr…
Organisational ethnography as a project of unease
Purpose The article examines situations of unease during ethnographic fieldwork with migration control agents in Sweden, Denmark and Germany. It shows how these “tests” are both methodologically challenging and analytically valuable, and how they need to be addressed properly. The article concludes a special issue on “passing the test in organisational ethnography”. Design/methodology/approach The article is based on ethnographic research with mi…
Migrants Before the Law
This book traces the practices of migration control and its contestation in the European migration regime in times of intense politicization. The collaboratively written work brings together the perspectives of state agents, NGOs, migrants with precarious legal status, and their support networks, collected through multi-sited fieldwork in eight European states: Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden and Switzerland. The book …
Migrants Before the Law
This book traces the street-level practices of migration control and its contestation in the European migration regime. The collaboratively written work brings together the perspectives of state agents, NGOs, and migrants with precarious legal status, collected through multi-sited fieldwork in eight European states: Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden and Switzerland. An ethnography of law in action, the book contributes t…
Researching Organisational Imbrications and Interstices
The (surprising?) nonchalance of migration control agents
This paper sheds light onto the processes of controlling irregular migration in Germany, based on ethnographic fieldwork with immigration officials, police forces, home office bureaucrats and non-state actors. Several studies have examined the policies and tools of migration control available to state officials and contracted third parties and generally found a trend towards greater restrictiveness and securitisation with regard to irregular migr…
Contested control at the margins of the state
While the fact that the implementation of migration policies fails to perfectly manage migration is well known, the actual dynamics of policy implementation have received little attention to date. A serious engagement with this phenomenon requires a move beyond policy texts and political intentions, and towards a 'migration regime' perspective that pays attention to the inherent contradictions, conflicts of interest and competing logics within mi…
Inside Immigration Law
Inside Immigration Law analyses the practice of implementing immigration law, examining the different political and organisational forces that influence the process. Based on unparalleled academic access to the German migration management system, this book provides new insights into the ’black box’ of regulating immigration, revealing how the application of immigration law to individual cases can be chaotic, improvised and sometimes arbitrary, an…
Cosmopolitan Anxieties
Autobiography and Decolonialization
Contested control at the margins of the state
While the fact that the implementation of migration policies fails to perfectly manage migration is well known, the actual dynamics of policy implementation have received little attention to date. A serious engagement with this phenomenon requires a move beyond policy texts and political intentions, and towards a 'migration regime' perspective that pays attention to the inherent contradictions, conflicts of interest and competing logics within mi…
The (surprising?) nonchalance of migration control agents
This paper sheds light onto the processes of controlling irregular migration in Germany, based on ethnographic fieldwork with immigration officials, police forces, home office bureaucrats and non-state actors. Several studies have examined the policies and tools of migration control available to state officials and contracted third parties and generally found a trend towards greater restrictiveness and securitisation with regard to irregular migr…
Advice as a Vocation? Politics, Managerialism and State Funding in the Swiss Refugee Support Community
Refugees often find themselves in precarious situations when trying to claim asylum. This paper examines the changing nature of legal advice in Switzerland, where a new law is drastically altering the asylum regime to a more centralised and tightly managed procedure. This reform directly affects the refugee advice community, which sees an increase in state funding opportunities paired with a higher demand for quality standards and 'managerial' pr…
Researching Organisational Imbrications and Interstices
Cosmopolitan Anxieties
Autobiography and Decolonialization
Inside Immigration Law
Inside Immigration Law analyses the practice of implementing immigration law, examining the different political and organisational forces that influence the process. Based on unparalleled academic access to the German migration management system, this book provides new insights into the ’black box’ of regulating immigration, revealing how the application of immigration law to individual cases can be chaotic, improvised and sometimes arbitrary, an…
Migrants Before the Law
This book traces the street-level practices of migration control and its contestation in the European migration regime. The collaboratively written work brings together the perspectives of state agents, NGOs, and migrants with precarious legal status, collected through multi-sited fieldwork in eight European states: Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden and Switzerland. An ethnography of law in action, the book contributes t…
Researching Organisational Imbrications and Interstices
The (surprising?) nonchalance of migration control agents
This paper sheds light onto the processes of controlling irregular migration in Germany, based on ethnographic fieldwork with immigration officials, police forces, home office bureaucrats and non-state actors. Several studies have examined the policies and tools of migration control available to state officials and contracted third parties and generally found a trend towards greater restrictiveness and securitisation with regard to irregular migr…
Contested control at the margins of the state
While the fact that the implementation of migration policies fails to perfectly manage migration is well known, the actual dynamics of policy implementation have received little attention to date. A serious engagement with this phenomenon requires a move beyond policy texts and political intentions, and towards a 'migration regime' perspective that pays attention to the inherent contradictions, conflicts of interest and competing logics within mi…
Migrants Before the Law
This book traces the practices of migration control and its contestation in the European migration regime in times of intense politicization. The collaboratively written work brings together the perspectives of state agents, NGOs, migrants with precarious legal status, and their support networks, collected through multi-sited fieldwork in eight European states: Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden and Switzerland. The book …
Organisational ethnography as a project of unease
Purpose The article examines situations of unease during ethnographic fieldwork with migration control agents in Sweden, Denmark and Germany. It shows how these “tests” are both methodologically challenging and analytically valuable, and how they need to be addressed properly. The article concludes a special issue on “passing the test in organisational ethnography”. Design/methodology/approach The article is based on ethnographic research with mi…
Advice as a Vocation? Politics, Managerialism and State Funding in the Swiss Refugee Support Community
Refugees often find themselves in precarious situations when trying to claim asylum. This paper examines the changing nature of legal advice in Switzerland, where a new law is drastically altering the asylum regime to a more centralised and tightly managed procedure. This reform directly affects the refugee advice community, which sees an increase in state funding opportunities paired with a higher demand for quality standards and 'managerial' pr…
Informed Non-Use
This article explores why individuals in vulnerable positions may not mobilise available legal avenues to protect themselves from harm, despite being aware of their existence. Drawing on data relating to precarious housing situations in Berlin and Zurich, we argue that the assumption that mobilising the law would improve the situation of individuals is not always accurate. We present three dimensions of non-mobilisation that prevent individuals f…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (5 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Emigration and immigration law (3 works) · Irregular migration (3 works) · Law (3 works) · LAW (3 works) · Law (3 works)