Asylum Matters : On the Front Line of Administrative Decision-Making.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing AG,
2020.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Praise for Asylum Matters
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- List of Figures
- 1 Shaping Administrative Practice: The Institutional Habitus
- The Shaping of Discretion
- Assessing Credibility in Asylum Procedures: A Subjective Matter?
- The Institutional Habitus: A Brief Conceptual Introduction
- Outline of the Book
- References
- 2 Studying Everyday Practice(s) in the SEM
- Getting into the "Black Box"
- "Getting In"… Literally
- Doing Fieldwork
- Following People Around
- Method Triangulation
- The Researcher as a Learner
- My Interaction Partners in the SEM
- Thinking Through and with Practice Theory: Methodological Limits and Challenges
- References
- 3 Asylum Decision-Making in Switzerland
- Asylum Politics in Switzerland and Beyond
- Changing Law and the Proliferation of Legal Categories
- The SEM: A Specialised Asylum Administration Emerges
- The Decision-Making Procedure
- The Swiss Asylum Act
- References
- 4 Knowledge as Practice: Producing Decisional Certainty
- Ben's Case
- "Country Knowledge"
- Determining Applicants' "Country of Origin"
- Assessing Reasonable Likelihood
- Assessing Demeanour
- Producing Decisional Certainty: The Role of Professional-Practical Knowledge
- Producing On-File Facts: The Asylum Interview
- Writing Asylum Decisions: The Final Creation of Legal Facts
- Managing Uncertainty: The Importance of Credibility Determination
- Concluding Remarks
- References
- 5 Getting in Line with the Office
- Becoming a Member of the Office
- Who Are the Decision-Makers?
- Recruiting New Decision-Makers
- Communities of Interpretation
- Learning the Ropes of Asylum Decision-Making
- Learning What Questions to Ask
- Learning to Test Credibility
- Accountability
- Peer Pressure
- Accountability Towards Superiors and Beyond.
- A Brief Summary: Acquiring an Institutional Habitus
- References
- 6 The Good Decision-Maker or Protecting the System
- Negotiating "the Right" Decision: A Field Anecdote
- Ethics of the Office: Decision-Makers as Protectors of the System
- Ethos of the Office: Professional Norms and Values
- The Efficient, Fast and Economical Decision-Maker
- The Neutral, Apolitical Decision-Maker
- The Objective, Sufficiently Distanced and Emotionally Detached Decision-Maker
- The Sufficiently but Not Overly Suspicious Decision-Maker
- Ethos Is Ethics: The Fair Decision-Maker
- Conclusion
- References
- 7 The Normalisation of Disbelief
- References
- Index.