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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dahlvik, Julia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:IMISCOE Research Series,
Subjects:
Emigration and immigration.
Sociology.
ISBN:9783319633060
ISSN:2364-4087
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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? .

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