Re-Cording Lives : Governing Asylum in Switzerland and the Need to Resolve

• Tác giả: Ephraim Pörtner
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-3837653496
• ISBN-13: 978-3839453490
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 362.8709494 Problems of and services to other groups
• Thông tin xuất bản: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2021
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (454 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 240321
• Chủ đề: 1. Human geography; 2. Migration, immigration & emigration

Tóm tắt

Administrative asylum procedures are permeated by tensions between rationalities of legality, efficiency, and deterrence in asylum casework and their various effects on cases. Based on ethnographic research in the Swiss asylum administration, this book unveils the pragmatics and politics of rendering asylum cases resolvable by re-cording the lives of applicants in terms of asylum. With his reading of power and agency in administrations, Ephraim Pörtner offers a critical view of the intricate relationship between practices of asylum casework and the governmental need to resolve claims of people seeking protection.