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Record Nr.

UNINA9910404115403321

Autore

Eckert Julia M

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2020

ISBN

3-8394-5104-3

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

Europe Emigration and immigration Government policy Moral and ethical aspects

Europe Emigration and immigration Government policy 21st century

European Union countries Emigration and immigration

European Union countries Emigration and immigration Government policy Moral and ethical aspects

European Union countries Emigration and immigration Government policy 21st century

Europe

European Union countries

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.