Re-Cording Lives

Ephraim Pörtner

Ephraim Pörtner

Re-Cording Lives

Governing Asylum in Switzerland and the Need to Resolve

In: Sozial- und Kulturgeographie, 41

transcript-Verlag | 2021

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About this book

Administrative asylum procedures are permeated by tensions between rationalities of legality, efficiency, and deterrence in asylum casework and their various effects on cases. Based on ethnographic research in the Swiss asylum administration, this book unveils the pragmatics and politics of rendering asylum cases resolvable by re-cording the lives of applicants in terms of asylum. With his reading of power and agency in administrations, Ephraim Pörtner offers a critical view of the intricate relationship between practices of asylum casework and the governmental need to resolve claims of people seeking protection.

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Ephraim Pörtner (PhD), born in 1981, is a lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Bern. He wrote his dissertation at the Department of Geography, University of Zurich.

Re-Cording Lives

Governing Asylum in Switzerland and the Need to Resolve

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