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

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

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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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Funder:
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
VerfasserIn:
Pörtner, Ephraim
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Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
Year of Publication:2021
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Sozial- und Kulturgeographie
Physical Description:1 online resource (454 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Selected Abbreviations and Acronyms
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. An Analytic of Governing Asylum
  • 3. Studying Government by (Dis)Association
  • PART I - Agentic Formations
  • 4. Knowing Asylum
  • 5. Equipped for Case-Making
  • Summary PART I
  • PART II - Enactment
  • 6. Case-Making
  • Summary PART II
  • PART III - (De)Stabilisations
  • 7. States of Conviction
  • 8. Asylums of Reason
  • Summary PART III
  • 9. Conclusion
  • References
  • Legal Sources

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