Cargando…

The Bureaucratic Production of Difference : Ethos and Ethics in Migration Administrations /

In the context of the ever-increasing political problematization of migration in Europe, agencies charged with migrant administration create diverse categories of difference to distinguish between the "deserving migrant" and the illegal one: They assess the detainability or the credibility...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Eckert, Julia M. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript-Verlag, [2020]
Colección:Kultur und soziale Praxis
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:In the context of the ever-increasing political problematization of migration in Europe, agencies charged with migrant administration create diverse categories of difference to distinguish between the "deserving migrant" and the illegal one: They assess the detainability or the credibility of asylum seekers, the danger posed by Islamic organizations, and make situational decisions that determine whether migration or labour law applies to individual agricultural workers. In this book, each chapter analyses how organizational interpretations "in service of" the common good shape bureaucratic practices. Together, these ethnographic analyses reveal how migration policies in different European countries take shape in administrative practice
Descripción Física:1 online resource (182 pages)
ISBN:9783839451045
3839451043
9783837651041
3837651045