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Record Nr.

UNINA9910404115403321

Titolo

The Bureaucratic Production of Difference : Ethos and Ethics in Migration Administrations / Julia M. Eckert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2020

ISBN

9783839451045

3839451043

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 p.)

Collana

Kultur und soziale Praxis

Disciplina

300

Soggetti

Migration

Bureaucracy

Morality

Europe

Politics

Cultural Anthropology

Administration

European Politics

Sociology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1 Contents    5 The Office    7 Keeping Numbers Low in the Name of Fairness    27 The Asylum Procedure in Border Detention    59 Moral Economy and Knowledge Production in a Security Bureaucracy    85 Governing the Boundaries of the Commonwealth    113 Functional Inconsistencies    135 The Economy of Detainability    155 Authors    175

Sommario/riassunto

In the context of the ever-increasing political problematization of migration in Europe, agencies charged with migrant administration create diverse categories of difference to distinguish between the »deserving migrant« and the illegal one: They assess the detainability or the credibility of asylum seekers, the danger posed by Islamic organizations, and make situational decisions that determine whether migration or labour law applies to individual agricultural workers. In



this book, each chapter analyses how organizational interpretations of the common good shape bureaucratic practices. Together, these ethnographic analyses reveal how migration policies in different European countries take shape in administrative practice.