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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.
Price: $60.00
Pages: 454
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date:
27 August 2021
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837653496
Format: Paperback
Ephraim Pörtner (PhD), born in 1981, is a lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Bern. He wrote his dissertation at the Department of Geography, University of Zurich.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 7
Figures and Tables 13
Selected Abbreviations and Acronyms 15
Preface 17
Acknowledgments 21
1. Introduction 23
2. An Analytic of Governing Asylum 45
3. Studying Government by (Dis)Association 69
4. Knowing Asylum 89
5. Equipped for Case-Making 135
Summary PART I 183
6. Case-Making 187
Summary PART II 283
7. States of Conviction 285
8. Asylums of Reason 335
Summary PART III 389
9. Conclusion 391
References 411
Legal Sources 451