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Re-Cording Lives

Governing Asylum in Switzerland and the Need to Resolve
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2021

About this book

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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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
May 26, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9783839453490
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
454
Illustrations:
10
Coloured Illustrations:
8
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839453490
eBook ISBN: 9783839453490
Keywords for this book
Asylum; Asylum; Governmentality; Governmentality; Bureaucracy; Bureaucracy; Switzerland; Switzerland; Europe; Europe; Fleeing; Fleeing; Migration; Migration; Social Geography; Social Geography; Geography; Geography
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
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BY-NC-ND 4.0
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