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Record Nr.

UNINA9910485579203321

Autore

Pörtner Ephraim <p>Ephraim Pörtner, Universität Zürich, Schweiz </p>

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2021

ISBN

9783839453490

3839453496

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (454 p.)

Collana

Sozial- und Kulturgeographie

Disciplina

362.8709494

Soggetti

Asylum

Governmentality

Bureaucracy

Switzerland

Europe

Fleeing

Migration

Social Geography

Geography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.

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