2021 - Franco Angeli
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Asylum decision-making and discretion : types of room for maneuver in refugee status determination
114-139 p.
- By mobilizing ethnographic methods to study the Swiss asylum administration, this article analyzes the discretionary powers of Swiss asylum caseworkers in a context characterized by an important sophistication of law. Starting from the observation that the daily work of asylum caseworkers is strongly oriented and controlled by their superiors and colleagues, by institutional rules and guidelines, as well as by their socialization, the author identifies different types of discretionary powers, on which caseworkers' discretion rests. Consequently, he discusses how caseworkers perceive and use it differently, depending on the situation in which they find themselves.
- Thus, the article argues that asylum caseworkers have different types of room for maneuver according to their tasks, to the situations they are faced with, to the conditions in which they operate, and to their own characteristics (capitals, attitudes, experience). Eventually, the present contribution shows the relational and collective dimensions of bureaucratic discretion. [Publisher's text].
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Sociologia del diritto : 3, 2021-
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Codice DOI: 10.3280/SD2021-003006
ISSN: 1972-5760
PAROLE CHIAVE
- Discretion, Bureaucratic Decisionmaking, Streetlevel bureaucracy, Asylum policy, Refugee status determination
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