TY  - GEN
AU  - Pörtner,Ephraim
TI  - Re-Cording Lives : Governing Asylum in Switzerland and the Need to Resolve
SN  - 9783839453490
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Bielefeld
PB  - transcript Verlag
KW  - Human geography
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Migration, immigration & emigration
KW  - Asylum
KW  - Governmentality
KW  - Bureaucracy
KW  - Switzerland
KW  - Europe
KW  - Fleeing
KW  - Migration
KW  - Social Geography
KW  - Geography
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/49638/1/9783839453490.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/49638/1/9783839453490.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/70884
ER  -