Asylum Determination in Europe Ethnographic Perspectives /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gill, Nick (Editor), Good, Anthony (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies,
• Subjects: Human rights.; Crime > Sociological aspects.; Criminology.; Political sociology.; Human Rights.; Crime and Society.; Research Methods in Criminology.; Crime Control and Security.; Political Sociology.
• Online Access: Link to Metadata

Summary

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 tothe process of claiming asylum in Europe.

Physical Description

XVII, 335 p. 4 illus. online resource.

ISBN

9783319947495

ISSN

2947-9282

DOI

10.1007/978-3-319-94749-5

Access

Open Access