Overview
- Provides a timely examination of the asylum process, exposing the the gaps and differences between policy and legislation in writing and in law as it is practiced
- Draws on new material from ten European countries
- Employs sociological, anthropological, geographical and linguistic perspectives
Part of the book series: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies (PSLS)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Actors
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Communication
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Decision-Making
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About this book
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 to the process of claiming asylum in Europe.
Reviews
“The moral panic evoked by cross-border movement is inevitably accompanied by a lack of knowledge about what ‘determining asylum’ actually entails. This book fills the gap. It covers a wide range of European settings and looks at the nuts and bolts of that process from a variety of disciplinary standpoints, revealing its contradictions with fine-grained ethnographic nuance.” (Deborah James, London School of Economics, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Anthony Good is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Asylum Determination in Europe
Book Subtitle: Ethnographic Perspectives
Editors: Nick Gill, Anthony Good
Series Title: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94749-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-94748-8Published: 17 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-94749-5Published: 05 December 2018
Series ISSN: 2947-9274
Series E-ISSN: 2947-9282
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 335
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Rights and Crime , Crime and Society, Research Methods in Criminology, Crime Control and Security, Sociology of Citizenship