EAN: 9783030615147

PALGRAVE SOCIO-LEGAL STUDIES ASYLUM MATTERS -...

This open access book examines everyday practices in an asylum administration. Asylum decisions
are often criticised as being 'subjective' or 'arbitrary'. Asylum Matters turns this claim on
its head. Through the ethnographic study of asylum decision-making in the Swiss Secretariat for
Migration  the book shows how regularities in administrative practice and 'socialised
subjectivity' are produced. It argues that asylum caseworkers acquire an institutional habitus
through their socialisation on the job  making them 'carriers' of routine practices. The
different chapters of the book deal with what it means to methodologically study administrative
practice: with how asylum proceedings work in Switzerland and with the role different types of
knowledge play in overcoming the uncertainties inherent in refugee status and credibility
determination. It sheds light on organisational socialisation processes and on the professional
norms and values at the heart of administrative work. By doing so  it shows how disbelief
becomes normalised in the office. This book speaks to legal scholars  sociologists 
anthropologists  human geographers and political scientists interested in bureaucracy  asylum
law  migration studies and socio-legal studies  and to NGOs working in the field of asylum.

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