The Bureaucratic Production of Difference: Ethos and Ethics in Migration AdministrationsJulia M. Eckert 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 of the common good shape bureaucratic practices. Together, these ethnographic analyses reveal how migration policies in different European countries take shape in administrative practice. |
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Keeping Numbers Low in the Name of Fairness Ethos and Ethics in a Swiss Asylum Administration | 27 |
The Asylum Procedure in Border Detention The Technicalities and Morals of Truth Determination in France | 59 |
Moral Economy and Knowledge Production in a Security Bureaucracy The Case of the German Office for the Protection of the Constitution | 85 |
Governing the Boundaries of the Commonwealth The Case of SoCalled Assisted Voluntary Return Migration | 113 |
Functional Inconsistencies State Inspection of Agricultural Labour in Switzerland | 135 |
The Economy of Detainability Theorizing Migrant Detention | 155 |
Authors | 175 |
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