Full Description
Since the 1970s, the recurring discourse of a 'refugee crisis' in Europe has affected border strategies that create a context of suspicion and criminalise asylum applicants. This book examines how the Netherlands engages with the arrival of certain (often illegalised) travellers and the asylum procedure, a tense liminal space and time that ensures decisions of in- and exclusion. Dutch asylum procedure is a peculiar legal procedure that gathers different people and sensitivities together to make swift, life-altering decisions for those applying for protection. Based on an extensive ethnography, this book reveals the ways in which suspicious compassion in Dutch asylum pervades an objective decision-making practice.
Contents
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Concentrated Sites and Times of the Asylum Procedure
Chapter 2. Interfacing the Procedure: The Itinerary and the Procedural Personae
Chapter 3. Noisy Hearings and Silent Reports
Chapter 4. Objective Subjectivities
Conclusion: State Intensities, Being in Touch with the State
References
Index
