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Re-Cording Lives: Governing Asylum in Switzerland and the Need to Resolve
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Abstract 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 renderin... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
social geography; geography; governmentality; bureaucracy; Switzerland; Europe; migration
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Economic and Social Geography
Free Keywords
Asylum; Fleeing
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
452 p.
Series
Sozial- und Kulturgeographie, 41
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839453490
ISBN
978-3-8394-5349-0
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0