Inside Asylum Bureaucracy: Organizing Refugee Status Determination in Austria
This open access monograph provides sociological insight into governmental action on the administration of asylum in the European context. It offers an in-depth understanding of how decision-making officials encounter and respond to structural contradictions in the asylum procedure produced by diver...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018. |
| Series: | IMISCOE Research Series,
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Part I: Claiming asylum in the 21st century: an institutional perspective
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Determining refugee status in the European context: the legal and institutional framework
- Part II: Setting the scene: the context and circumstances of work at the Federal Asylum Office
- 3.The organization: structure, environment and socialization
- 4.The asylum interview as a magnifying glass for key issues: conflicting norms, power struggles, and actors' strategies
- 5.Regulation vs. room for maneuver
- 6.Definitiveness vs. uncertainty
- 7.The human individual vs. the faceless case
- 8.Responsibility vs. dissociation
- Part IV: Conclusion and prospects: theorizing public officials' practices and practical ways ahead
- 9.Practices in focus: the dilemmas that evoke them and the effects they have
- 10.Practical implications: how to deal with structural dilemmas? .