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Re-Cording Lives : Governing Asylum in Switzerland and the Need to Resolve / Ephraim Pörtner.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Sozial- und Kulturgeographie ; volume 41 | Sozial- und Kulturgeographie ; Bd. 41.Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript-Verlag, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (454 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 3839453496
  • 9783839453490
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 362.8709494 23
  • 910 15
LOC classification:
  • JV8288
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Selected Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. An Analytic of Governing Asylum -- 3. Studying Government by (Dis)Association -- PART I -- Agentic Formations -- 4. Knowing Asylum -- 5. Equipped for Case-Making -- Summary PART I -- PART II -- Enactment -- 6. Case-Making -- Summary PART II -- PART III -- (De)Stabilisations -- 7. States of Conviction -- 8. Asylums of Reason -- Summary PART III -- 9. Conclusion -- References -- Legal Sources
Summary: 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.
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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.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Selected Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. An Analytic of Governing Asylum -- 3. Studying Government by (Dis)Association -- PART I -- Agentic Formations -- 4. Knowing Asylum -- 5. Equipped for Case-Making -- Summary PART I -- PART II -- Enactment -- 6. Case-Making -- Summary PART II -- PART III -- (De)Stabilisations -- 7. States of Conviction -- 8. Asylums of Reason -- Summary PART III -- 9. Conclusion -- References -- Legal Sources

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