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OverviewThis 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, asylum law, migration studies and socio-legal studies, and to NGOs working in the field of asylum. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Laura AffolterPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: 1st ed. 2021 Weight: 0.506kg ISBN: 9783030615116ISBN 10: 3030615111 Pages: 203 Publication Date: 01 December 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsChapter 1 Shaping Administrative Practice: The Institutional Habitus Chapter 2 Studying Everyday Practice(s) in the SEM Chapter 3 Asylum Decision-Making in Switzerland Chapter 4 Knowledge as Practice: Producing Decisional Certainty Chapter 5 Getting in Line with the Office Chapter 6 The Good Decision-Maker or Protecting the System Chapter 7 The Normalisation of DisbeliefReviewsAuthor InformationLaura Affolter is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Research Group Sociology of Law at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Germany, and Associate Researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology in Bern, Switzerland. Her (co-authored) publications include Taking the ‘Just’ Decision (2019) and Keeping Numbers Low in the Name of Fairness (2020). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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