TPrize-awarded thesis (doctoral)--Universität Zürich, 2018. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Legal Sources 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
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.
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