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The Bureaucratic Production of Difference Ethos and Ethics in Migration Administrations Julia M. Eckert
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Kultur und Soziale Praxis
- Kultur und soziale Praxis
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Migration.
- Bureaucracy.
- Morality.
- Europe.
- Politics.
- Cultural Anthropology.
- Administration.
- European Politics.
- Sociology.
- Local Subjects:
- Migration.
- Bureaucracy.
- Morality.
- Europe.
- Politics.
- Cultural Anthropology.
- Administration.
- European Politics.
- Sociology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (182 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Eckert (ed.), The Bureaucratic Production of Difference Ethos and Ethics in Migration Administrations
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2020
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Julia M. Eckert, professor of political anthropology at the University of Bern, explores the relation between moral norms and legal change with a particular focus on changing institutions of responsibility, liability, and redistribution. She connects these with current contestations over democratic representation, participation, security, and citizenship.
- Summary:
- In the context of the ever-increasing political problematization of migration in Europe, agencies charged with migrant administration create diverse categories of difference to distinguish between the »deserving migrant« and the illegal one: They assess the detainability or the credibility of asylum seekers, the danger posed by Islamic organizations, and make situational decisions that determine whether migration or labour law applies to individual agricultural workers. In this book, each chapter analyses how organizational interpretations of the common good shape bureaucratic practices. Together, these ethnographic analyses reveal how migration policies in different European countries take shape in administrative practice.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 The Office 7 Keeping Numbers Low in the Name of Fairness 27 The Asylum Procedure in Border Detention 59 Moral Economy and Knowledge Production in a Security Bureaucracy 85 Governing the Boundaries of the Commonwealth 113 Functional Inconsistencies 135 The Economy of Detainability 155 Authors 175
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 http://www.transcript-verlag.de/open-access-bei-transcript
- ISBN:
- 9783839451045
- 3839451043
- OCLC:
- 1158128107
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