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...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author Jubany, Olga (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
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
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319407487
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-40748-7
Physical DescriptionXVII, 268 p. online resource.

Cover

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.

Similar Items