期刊全称 | Asylum Matters | 期刊简称 | On the Front Line of | 影响因子2023 | Laura Affolter | 视频video | | 发行地址 | This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access.Explores both the asylum process and bureaucratic decision-making in Switzerland.Uses Switzerland as an ethnographic case | 学科分类 | Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | .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, asy | Pindex | Book‘‘‘‘‘‘‘‘ 2021 |
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