Screening asylum in a culture of disbelief : truths, denials and skeptical borders

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 cultur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jubany, Olga (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (online služba) (Distributor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan : Springer, 2017
Genre/form:	monografie elektronické knihy
ISBN:	978-3-319-40748-7 978-3-319-40747-0 978-3-319-82172-6 9783319407470
Subjects:	mezinárodní migrace uprchlické právo uprchlíci psychologické aspekty cizinecký režim právo azylu imigranti imigrace veřejné mínění politická emigrace politická sociologie
Online Access:	Plný text
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Table of Contents:

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