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Screening Asylum in a Culture of Disbelief - Truths, Denials and Skeptical Borders (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
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Screening Asylum in a Culture of Disbelief - Truths, Denials and Skeptical Borders (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
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This ethnographic book enhances our understanding of asylum
screening, an area of immigration that is often overlooked and
remains under-researched. Falsely perceived as a one-dimensional
function of static state power, it is here revealed that asylum
decisions at borders respond to a complex cultural construction,
saturated by a meta-message of disbelief, denial and moral panics.
The author demonstrates that immigration officers' work patterns,
behavior and decisions are informed by such stereotyping, which has
led to asylum narratives being interpreted in the light of concepts
of social acceptability and rejection. Establishing a parallel with
law enforcement, the author argues that this process replicates a
professional world of categorization and control, forged within an
autonomous immigration service subculture. This timely work will
appeal to students and scholars of migration studies, identity and
ethnic studies, social anthropology, sociology, law and policy
studies. >
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