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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 renderin...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-496382022-01-25T10:56:59Z Re-Cording Lives Pörtner, Ephraim Asylum Governmentality Bureaucracy Switzerland Europe Fleeing Migration Social Geography Geography bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFN Migration, immigration & emigration 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. 2021-06-21T13:36:51Z 2021-06-21T13:36:51Z 2021 book ONIX_20210621_9783839453490_7 9783839453490 9783837653496 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49638 eng Sozial- und Kulturgeographie application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9783839453490.pdf transcript Verlag transcript Verlag 10.14361/9783839453490 10.14361/9783839453490 b30a6210-768f-42e6-bb84-0e6306590b5c 9783839453490 9783837653496 transcript Verlag 41 454 Bielefeld open access
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