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In the context of the ever-increasing political problematization of migration in Europe, agencies charged with migrant administration create diverse categories of difference to distinguish between the »deserving migrant« and the illegal one: They assess the detainability or the credibility of asylum seekers, the danger posed by Islamic organizations, and make situational decisions that determine whether migration or labour law applies to individual agricultural workers. In this book, each chapter analyses how organizational interpretations of the common good shape bureaucratic practices. Together, these ethnographic analyses reveal how migration policies in different European countries take shape in administrative practice.
Price: $40.00
Pages: 182
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date:
27 April 2020
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837651041
Format: Paperback
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Julia M. Eckert, professor of political anthropology at the University of Bern, explores the relation between moral norms and legal change with a particular focus on changing institutions of responsibility, liability, and redistribution. She connects these with current contestations over democratic representation, participation, security, and citizenship.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
The Office 7
Keeping Numbers Low in the Name of Fairness 27
The Asylum Procedure in Border Detention 59
Moral Economy and Knowledge Production in a Security Bureaucracy 85
Governing the Boundaries of the Commonwealth 113
Functional Inconsistencies 135
The Economy of Detainability 155
Authors 175