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

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.

About the author

Ephraim Pörtner (PhD), born in 1981, is a lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Bern. He wrote his dissertation at the Department of Geography, University of Zurich.

Summary

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.

Additional text

Besprochen in:https://fm-cab.blogspot.com, 8 (2021)InfoDienst Migration, 4 (2021)

Report

Besprochen in:
https://fm-cab.blogspot.com, 8 (2021)
InfoDienst Migration, 4 (2021)

Product details

• Authors: Ephraim Pörtner
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2021
• EAN: 9783837653496
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-5349-6
• No. of pages: 454
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 32 mm x 232 mm
• Weight: 663 g
• Illustrations: 10 schw.-w. u. 8 farb. Abb.
• Series: Sozial- und Kulturgeographie; Social and Cultural Geography (COL); Social and Cultural Geography
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Migration, Recht, Politik, Migration, Einwanderung und Auswanderung, Geography, Europe, Switzerland, Social Geography, Fleeing, Governmentality, Bureaucracy, Asylum, Culture and institutions, Factors affecting social behavior, International migration and colonization, Groups of people, Political science (Politics and government)