Screening Asylum in a Culture of Disbelief : Truths, Denials and Skeptical Borders

• Main Author: Jubany, Olga. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Economic sociology.; Area studies.; Political sociology.; Emigration and immigration.; Social justice.; Human rights.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319407487
• Physical Description: XVII, 268 p. online resource.

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...