Asylum Matters
On the Front Line of Administrative Decision-Making
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19909792 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura Affolter (0000-0001-7203-1840, University of Bern, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Asylum Matters (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Springer International Publishing (PUBLISHER • SG) |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-3-030-61512-3 |
| OpenAlex | W4232822377 |
| Open Library | OL35855804M |
| ISBN | 9783030615123 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 33 |
| References cited | 79 |
This open access book examines everyday practices in an asylum administration, argues that asylum caseworkers acquire an institutional habitus through their socialisation on the job, making them carriers of routine practices, and shows how disbelief becomes normalised in the office
Administration (probate law) · Criminology · Ethnography · Habitus · Political science · Public relations · Refugee · Sociology · Anthropology · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · switzerland
Antagonistic Collaboration
Institutional analyses of refugee protection
Illusions of objectivity
Institutional habitus, cultural capital, and STEAM learner identity in the context of rural Chinese technical vocational education and training
Asylum decision-making and discretion
Intensive mothering and informational habitus
Railway workers & border deaths. Moral dilemmas and the relational dimension of decision-making
Consulates under diplomatic pressure? Bureaucratic resistance and relational discretion in visa issuance in China
Do street-level bureaucrats have discretionary power? Analysing the immigration detention policy implementation from the perspective of organizational power struggles in Belgian ‘closed centres
Regular matters
Asylum Adjudication and Street-Level Discretion
Navigating the European Migration Regime
Les langues que l'État ne parle pas
Translational State Power
Introduction
‘Do I Have to Say Exactly Word by Word?’ (Re)producing and Negotiating Asymmetrical Relations in Asylum Interviews
The Symbolic Life of Courts
Conceptualisations of Legal Otherness in Asylum Evidentiary Practices
Les réfugiés LGBTI
But You Try to Dig the Hole; Why?’
Collectivized Discretion
Bureaucracies Under Judicial Control? Relational Discretion in the Implementation of Immigration Detention in Swiss Cantons
Algorithmically Constructed Shibboleths
Making sense of noncitizens' rights claims in asylum appeal hearings
Just another benefit? Administrative judges' constructions of sameness and difference in asylum adjudications
Informing for the sake of it
States of Suspicion
Brokering in uncharted terrain
Playing dirty
The feeling of destiny
The extraordinary. Asylum process as an intertextual chain
Constructed objectivity in asylum decision-making through new technologies
Truth clashes
Becoming a Decision-Maker, or
Taking the ‘Just’ Decision
The Refugee in International Law
Law as Process
“I take an oath to the state, not the government”
Assessing Testimonial Evidence in Asylum Proceedings
From Past to Present and Into the Future
Gender and Refugee Status
Re-Cording Lives
The Social Production of Indifference
Migrants Before the Law
Inside Asylum Bureaucracy
Weber
Ethnography
Sociology after the Holocaust
Constructing exclusion. The micro-sociology of an immigration department
The Anthropology of Power-Wielding Bureaucracies
“We Cannot Claim Any Particular Knowledge of the Ways of Homosexuals, Still Less of Iranian Homosexuals …”
Do the Facts Speak for Themselves? Country of Origin Information in French and British Refugee Status Determination Procedures
What Assumptions about Human Behaviour Underlie Asylum Judgments
Fleeing Homophobia
Asylum Determination in Europe
From the Law to the Decision
Methodological challenges in using practice theory in consumption research. Examples from a study on handling nutritional contestations of food consumption
On the doorstep of Europe
Dealing with Law in Migration Control
Dunking the Doughnut
Investigating Narrative Inequality
More Labels, Fewer Refugees
"Law, Citizenship, and the Construction of (Some) Immigrant "Others
A Brief Introduction of the Puzzle of Discretion
Trust, Privilege, and Discretion in the Governance of the US Borderlands with Mexico
Vile liars and truth distorters’; Truth, trust and the asylum system (Respond to this article at http
Troubled Communication
Who are you afraid of and why? Inside the black box of refugee tribunals
The Faces of Justice and State Authority
Presentational state power
Governing asylum through configurations of productivity and deterrence
People can talk about their practices
Credibility, Proof and Refugee Law
The European Union and the Securitization of Migration
Migration Control in Europe After 9/11
Social Equities and Inequities in Practice
Knowing” the Rules
Reflections on Street‐Level Bureaucracy
Policy Work
Recruitment and Reproduction
Toward an Anthropology of Public Policy
A Public Management for All Seasons
The Complexity of Determining Refugeehood
States of Suspicion
After Legal Consciousness
Accounting for the effects of accountability
Immigration policy implementation in Italy
Work-permit decisions in the German labour administration
Representing Trauma
From Max Weber
Practice 'in Talk' and Talk 'as Practice
Language, Anthropology and Cognitive Science
Compassion and Repression
Where ethics and politics meet
Blurred Boundaries
Humanitarianism as a Politics of Life
The Precarious Truth of Asylum
Studying actions in context
Toward a Theory of Social Practices
Constructing truths in a culture of disbelief
Assembling Partial Perspectives
Sympathy and suspicion
The social aesthetics of eligibility
Anthropologists as experts Asylum appeals in British courts
Putting Power in the Anthropology of Bureaucracy
| Unique citing works | 33 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 32 |