Re–Cording Lives – Governing Asylum in Switzerland and the Need to Resolve
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Transcript Verlag
Published:7th Dec '21
Should be back in stock very soon
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.
Besprochen in: https://fm-cab.blogspot.com, 8 (2021) InfoDienst Migration, 4 (2021)
ISBN: 9783837653496
Dimensions: 226mm x 147mm x 15mm
Weight: 666g
430 pages