The Bureaucratic Production of Difference: Ethos and Ethics in Migration Administrations (Culture and Social Practice)

Julia M. Eckert

ISBN 10: 3837651045 / ISBN 13: 9783837651041

Published by Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Nokel u. Dr. Karin Werner, 2020

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177 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Bureaucratic Production of Difference: Ethos and Ethics in Migration Administrations (Culture and Social Practice)
• Publisher: Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Nokel u. Dr. Karin Werner
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3837651045
• ISBN 13: 9783837651041
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.67 kilograms

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Synopsis

In the context of the ever-increasing political problematization of migration in Europe, agencies charged with migrant administration create diverse categories of difference to distinguish between the »deserving migrant« and the illegal one: They assess the detainability or the credibility of asylum seekers, the danger posed by Islamic organizations, and make situational decisions that determine whether migration or labour law applies to individual agricultural workers. In this book, each chapter analyses how organizational interpretations of the common good shape bureaucratic practices. Together, these ethnographic analyses reveal how migration policies in different European countries take shape in administrative practice.

About the Author

Julia M. Eckert professor of political anthropology at the University of Bern, explores the relation between moral norms and legal change with a particular focus on changing institutions of responsibility, liability, and redistribution. She connects these with current contestations over democratic representation, participation, security, and citizenship.