Inside Asylum Bureaucracy: Organizing Refugee Status Determination in Austria
Publication year: 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-63306-0
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This open access monograph provides sociological insight into governmental action on the administration of asylum in the European context. It offers an in-depth understanding of how decision-making officials encounter and respond to structural contradictions in the asylum procedure produced by diverging legal, political, and administrative objectives.The study focuses on structural aspects on the one hand, such as legal and organisational elements, and aspects of agency on the other hand, examining the social practices and processes going on at the frontside and the backside of the administrative asylum system.
Subject: Open Access, Public administration of asylum applications in Europe, Determining refugee status in the street-level bureaucracy, Individual-institution interaction, Institutional ethnography, Theory of social practices, Immigration in Europe
