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Subject(s)

• Europe—Emigration and immigration—Government policy—Moral and ethical aspects [Browse]
• Europe—Emigration and immigration—Government policy—21st century [Browse]
• European Union countries—Emigration and immigration [Browse]
• European Union countries—Emigration and immigration—Government policy—Moral and ethical aspects [Browse]
• European Union countries—Emigration and immigration—Government policy—21st century [Browse]

Funder

• Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) [Browse]
• Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) [Browse]

• Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) [Browse]

Editor

• Eckert, Julia M. [Browse]
• Eckert, Julia M. [Browse]

Series

• Kultur und Soziale Praxis [More in this series]
• Kultur und soziale Praxis

Biographical/​Historical note

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 note

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.

Funding information

funded by Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)

Rights and reproductions note

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 license:

Language note

In English.

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

ISBN

3-8394-5104-3

OCLC

1158128107

Doi

• 10.14361/9783839451045

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