Asylum Determination in Europe : Ethnographic Perspectives / edited by Nick Gill, Anthony Good.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gill, Nick., Editor.

Contributor:

Gill, Nick, Editor.

Good, Anthony, Editor.

Series:

Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies, 2947-9282

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Crime--Sociological aspects.

Crime.

Criminology.

Political sociology.

Human Rights.

Crime and Society.

Research Methods in Criminology.

Crime Control and Security.

Political Sociology.

Local Subjects:

Human Rights.

Crime and Society.

Research Methods in Criminology.

Crime Control and Security.

Political Sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XVII, 335 p. 4 illus.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2019.

Place of Publication:

2018.

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing on new research material from ten European countries, Asylum Determination in Europe: Ethnographic Perspectives brings together a range of detailed accounts of the legal and bureaucratic processes by which asylum claims are decided.The book includes a legal overview of European asylum determination procedures, followed by sections on the diverse actors involved, the means by which they communicate, and the ways in which they make life and death decisions on a daily basis. It offers a contextually rich account that moves beyond doctrinal law to uncover the gaps and variances between formal policy and legislation, and law as actually practiced. The contributors employ a variety of disciplinary perspectives - sociological, anthropological, geographical and linguistic - but are united in their use of an ethnographic methodological approach. Through this lens, the book captures the confusion, improvisation, inconsistency, complexity and emotional turmoil inherent tothe process of claiming asylum in Europe.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction; Nick Gill and Anthony Good

Chapter 2. Legal Overview; Sarah Craig and Karin Zwaan

PART I - ACTORS

Chapter 3. The "Inner Belief" of French Asylum Judges; Carolina Kobelinsky

Chapter 4. "It's All about Naming Things Right": The Paradox of Web Truths in the Belgian Asylum-Seeking Procedure; Massimiliano Spotti

Chapter 5. The World of Home Office Presenting Officers; John R. Campbell

Chapter 6. Asylum Procedures in Greece: The Case of Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Minors; Chrisa Giannopoulou and Nick Gill

PART II - COMMUNICATION

Chapter 7. Why Handling Power Responsibly Matters: The Active Interpreter Through the Sociological Lense; Julia Dahlvik

Chapter 8. Communicative Practices and Contexts of Interaction in the Refugee Status Determination Process in France; Robert Gibb

Chapter 9. Narrating Asylum in Camp and at Court; Matilde Skov Danstrøm and Zachary Whyte

Chapter 10. Interactions and Identities in UK Asylum Appeals: Lawyers and Law in a Quasi-Legal Setting; Jessica Hambly

PART III - DECISION-MAKING

Chapter 11. What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Credibility? Refugee Appeals in Italy; Barbara Sorgoni

Chapter 12. Making the Right Decision: Justice in the Asylum Bureaucracy in Norway; Tone Maia Liodden

Chapter 13. Taking the 'Just' Decision: Caseworkers and Their Communities of Interpretation in the Swiss Asylum Office; Laura Affolter, Jonathan Miaz, Ephraim Poertner

Chapter 14. Becoming a Decision-Maker, or 'Don't Turn Your Heart Into a Den of Thieves and Murderers'; Stephanie Schneider

Conclusion; Nick Gill.

Notes:

CC BY

ISBN:

9783319947495

3319947494

OCLC:

1108564383

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access