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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 book shows how regularities in administrative practice and ¿socialised subjectivity¿ are produced. It argues that asylum caseworkers acquire an in...

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 book shows how regularities in administrative practice and 'socialised subjectivity' are produced. It argues that asylum caseworkers acquire an in...