Re-Cording Lives : Governing Asylum in Switzerland and the Need to Resolve / Ephraim Pörtner.
Material type: TextSeries: 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
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- online resource
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- Political refugees -- Government policy -- Switzerland
- Political refugees -- Services for -- Switzerland
- Social case work -- Switzerland
- Bureaucracy
- Europe
- Fleeing
- Geography
- Governmentality
- Migration
- Social Geography
- Switzerland
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography
- Political refugees -- Government policy
- Political refugees -- Services for
- Social case work
- Switzerland
- Bureaucracy
- Europe
- Fleeing
- Geography
- Governmentality
- Migration
- Social Geography
- Switzerland
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- JV8288
In English.
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
Includes bibliographical references.
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