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Female Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Detention: An Exploratory Review of Research
Recent trends suggest that arbitrary detention of female asylum seekers and refugees is increasing globally, with reports of serious human rights...
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Seeking Asylum and Refuge: Poverty, Destitution and Unemployment
This chapter shares insights into the asylum seeker picture in the UK regarding policy and human rights considerations through a...
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Towards Child-Friendly Asylum Justice
When unaccompanied minors or families with minor children obtain a negative decision on their asylum application in Belgium, they can appeal at the...
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Criminalization of Asylum Seekers in Israel: Toward an Agentic Research Perspective that Opposes Othering and Estrangement
At the start of the millennium, asylum seekers (ASs) from Eritrea and South Sudan began arriving in Israel as a consequence of armed conflicts in...
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Asylum Case Adjudication in Sweden, Country of Origin Information and Epistemic Violence
This chapter on country of origin information (COI) draws on the semi-structured interviews I have been conducting between the years 2014 and 2022...
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Asylum Matters On the Front Line of Administrative Decision-Making
This open access book examines everyday practices in an asylum administration. Asylum decisions are often criticised as being ‘subjective’ or...
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Asylum Decision-Making in Switzerland
This chapter provides an outline of how the Swiss asylum procedure works. It contextualises the current asylum procedure within the history of asylum...
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The Permission to be Cruel: Street-Level Bureaucrats and Harms Against People Seeking Asylum
Immigration and asylum policies and practices in Britain have turned increasingly hostile. People seeking asylum are exposed to a panoply of control...
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Micropolitics of Time: Asylum Regimes, Temporalities and Everyday Forms of Power
This chapter offers a nuanced analysis of the micropolitics of time in the context of asylum by analysing the ways in which different temporalities...
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The Asylum ‘Market’: Deportation, Detention and the Privatisation of Dispersed Accommodation
This chapter examines the triangulation of control exerted on asylum seekers through state mechanisms of deportation, detention, and dispersed...
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Gang Phantasmagoria: How Racialized Gang Allegations Haunt Immigration Legal Work
Through an analysis of interviews with Southern California attorneys, supplemented by archival materials, this article contributes to the literature...
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Locked Up: Prisoners, Youth Detainees and Asylum Seekers
While the West was experiencing an existential threat, and the elderly and vulnerable were neglected, also absent from the news and general attention...
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Deconstructing the Myth of the Need for Immigration Detention
Immigration detention is broadly used by many countries around the world as a tool for so-called migration governance and as a deterrence measure...
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A Violent Dream: Importing the ‘Australian Solution’ to the United Kingdom
In MarchAustralian Solution 2023, BritishUnited Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi SunakSunak, Rishi addressed a press conference, standing before a podium...
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Narrating Asylum in Camp and at Court
In Denmark, as elsewhere, narratives are central to the asylum determination procedure. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this chapter investigates...
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Asylum Procedures in Greece: The Case of Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Minors
This chapter demonstrates how ‘nonlegal forms of normative ordering’ (Merry 1988: 870) such as those that inhere in national discourses and...
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Asylum Determination in Europe Ethnographic Perspectives
Drawing on new research material from ten European countries, Asylum Determination in Europe: Ethnographic Perspectivesbrings together a range of...
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Hostile Homes Violence, Harm and the Marketisation of UK Asylum Housing
This book explores the ways in which the state and private security firms contribute to the direct and structural harm of asylum seekers through...
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Knowledge as Practice: Producing Decisional Certainty
Much uncertainty inheres in refugee status determination and particularly credibility assessments. This chapter deals with how asylum caseworkers...
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The “Inner Belief” of French Asylum Judges
The judges of the French Court of Asylum, in charge of examining the cases of asylum seekers rejected by the French Office for the Protection of...