Asylum Matters

This open access book examines everyday practices in an asylum administration. Asylum decisions are often criticised as being ‘subjective’ or ‘arbitrary’. Asylum Matters turns this claim on its head. Through the ethnographic study of asylum decision-making in the Swiss Secretariat for Migration, the...

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Автор: Affolter, Laura
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Asylum Matters
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Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights
Socio-Legal Studies
Biotechnology
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