Inside Asylum Bureaucracy: Organizing Refugee Status Determination in Austria

• Main Author: Julia Dahlvik (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Nature 2018
• Series: IMISCOE Research Series
• Subjects: Public administration of asylum applications in Europe; Determining refugee status in street-level bureaucracy; Institutional ethnography; Theory of social practices; Immigration in Europe; Individual-institution interaction
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...