The Bureaucratic Production of Difference: Ethos and Ethics in Migration Administrations

book: The Bureaucratic Production of Difference

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2020

The Bureaucratic Production of Difference

Ethos and Ethics in Migration Administrations

Edited by: Julia M. Eckert
Funded by: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

In the series Kultur und soziale Praxis

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839451045

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About this book

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 »in service of« the common good shape bureaucratic practices. Together, these ethnographic analyses reveal how migration policies in different European countries take shape in administrative practice.

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Julia Eckert, professor of social anthropology at the University of Bern, explores the emergence of transnational legal norms with a particular focus on changing institutions of responsibility and liability. She connects these with current contestations over democratic representation, participation, security, and citizenship.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
The Office Ethos and Ethics in Migration Bureaucracies Julia Eckert Open Access Download PDF	7
Keeping Numbers Low in the Name of Fairness Ethos and Ethics in a Swiss Asylum Administration Laura Affolter Open Access Download PDF	27
The Asylum Procedure in Border Detention The Technicalities and Morals of Truth Determination in France Chowra Makaremi Open Access Download PDF	59
Moral Economy and Knowledge Production in a Security Bureaucracy The Case of the German Office for the Protection of the Constitution Werner Schiffauer Open Access Download PDF	85
Governing the Boundaries of the Commonwealth The Case of So-Called Assisted Voluntary Return Migration David Loher Open Access Download PDF	113
Functional Inconsistencies State Inspection of Agricultural Labour in Switzerland Simon Affolter Open Access Download PDF	135
The Economy of Detainability Theorizing Migrant Detention Nicholas De Genova Open Access Download PDF	155
Authors Open Access Download PDF	175

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 182
Keywords: Bureaucracy; Morality; Europe; Politics; Cultural Anthropology; Administration; European Politics; Sociology

eBook

Published: May 27, 2020
ISBN: 9783839451045