Re-Cording Lives : Governing Asylum in Switzerland and the Need to Resolve

Pörtner, Ephraim

doi:10.14361/9783839453490

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Pörtner, Ephraim

Collection

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)

Language

English

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Abstract

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.

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https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/70884

Keywords

Asylum; Governmentality; Bureaucracy; Switzerland; Europe; Fleeing; Migration; Social Geography; Geography; thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFH Migration, immigration and emigration; thema EDItEUR::5 Interest qualifiers::5P Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests::5PB Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures and other groupings of people::5PBC Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples