Screening Asylum in a Culture of Disbelief - Truths, Denials and Skeptical Borders (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

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. >

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	February 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Olga Jubany
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	268
Edition:	1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-40747-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Refugees & political asylum Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > Central government policies Promotions
LSN:	3-319-40747-3
Barcode:	9783319407470

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