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

Ephraim Pörtner author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Transcript Verlag

Published:7th Dec '21

Should be back in stock very soon

Re–Cording Lives – Governing Asylum in Switzerland and the Need to Resolve cover

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