Asylum Determination in Europe
Drawing on new research material from ten European countries, Asylum Determination in Europe: Ethnographic Perspectives brings together a range of detailed accounts of the legal and bureaucratic processes by which asylum claims are decided.The book includes a legal overview of European asylum determination procedures, followed by sections on the diverse actors involved, the means by which they communicate, and the ways in which they make life and death decisions on a daily basis. It offers a contextually rich account that moves beyond doctrinal law to uncover the gaps and variances between formal policy and legislation, and law as actually practiced. The contributors employ a variety of disciplinary perspectives – sociological, anthropological, geographical and linguistic – but are united in their use of an ethnographic methodological approach. Through this lens, the book captures the confusion, improvisation, inconsistency, complexity and emotional turmoil inherent to the process of claiming asylum in Europe.Drawing on new research material from ten European countries, Asylum Determination in Europe: Ethnographic Perspectives brings together a range of detailed accounts of the legal and bureaucratic processes by which asylum claims are decided.The book includes a legal overview of European asylum determination procedures, followed by sections on the diverse actors involved, the means by which they communicate, and the ways in which they make life and death decisions on a daily basis. It offers a contextually rich account that moves beyond doctrinal law to uncover the gaps and variances between formal policy and legislation, and law as actually practiced. The contributors employ a variety of disciplinary perspectives – sociological, anthropological, geographical and linguistic – but are united in their use of an ethnographic methodological approach. Through this lens, the book captures the confusion, improvisation, inconsistency, complexity and emotional turmoil inherent to the process of claiming asylum in Europe.
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Drawing on new research material from ten European countries, Asylum Determination in Europe: Ethnographic Perspectives brings together a range of detailed accounts of the legal and bureaucratic proce
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College of Life and Environmental Sciences University of Exeter Exeter, UK Dr. Nick Gill is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Exeter, UK. He is a political geographer whose work focuses on issues of justice and injustice, especially in the context of border control, mobility and its confiscation, incarceration and the law. His books include Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention edited with Dominique Moran and Deirdre Conlon (Ashgate, 2013) and Nothing Personal? Geographies of Governing and Activism in the British Asylum System (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016). His current European Research Council funded research project, ASYFAIR, examines court spaces, access to justice and the consistency of asylum determination in Europe.
Nick Gill (Editor)
University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, UK Dr. Anthony Good is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. His overseas field research focuses on South India and Sri Lanka. He has acted as expert witness in over 600 asylum appeals involving Sri Lankan Tamils and has done ESRC and (with Robert Gibb) AHRC-funded research on the asylum processes in France and the UK. Books include Anthropology and Expertise in the Asylum Courts (Routledge, 2007) and (with Daniela Berti and Gilles Tarabout) Of Doubt and Proof: Ritual and Legal Practices of Judgment (Ashgate, 2015).
Anthony Good (Editor)
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