Screening asylum in a culture of disbelief : truths, denials and skeptical borders / Olga Jubany.
Jubany, Olga, author.
2017
HV640
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Title Screening asylum in a culture of disbelief : truths, denials and skeptical borders / Olga Jubany.
Author Jubany, Olga, author.
ISBN 9783319407487 (electronic book)
3319407481 (electronic book)
9783319407470
3319407473
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Call Number HV640
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.87
Summary This ethnographic book enhances our understanding of asylum screening, an area of immigration that is often overlooked and remains under-researched. Falsely perceived as a one-dimensional function of static state power, it is here revealed that asylum decisions at borders respond to a complex cultural construction, saturated by a meta-message of disbelief, denial and moral panics. The author demonstrates that immigration officers’ work patterns, behavior and decisions are informed by such stereotyping, which has led to asylum narratives being interpreted in the light of concepts of social acceptability and rejection. Establishing a parallel with law enforcement, the author argues that this process replicates a professional world of categorization and control, forged within an autonomous immigration service subculture. This timely work will appeal to students and scholars of migration studies, identity and ethnic studies, social anthropology, sociology, law and policy studies.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Foreword; John Solomos; Chapter 1. Asylum Screening from Within
Chapter 2. Asylum Seeking and the Threatened State
Chapter 3. Subcultures of Social Control
Chapter 4. Trained to Spot the Truth
Chapter 5. Deconstructing asylum seekers’ narratives
Chapter 6. A Subculture of Disbelief
Chapter 7. Pulling Back the Screen.

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