I\u2019m pleased to announce the publication of a new open access book entitled \u2018Asylum Determination in Europe \u2013 Ethnographic Perspectives\u2019 edited by Nick Gill and Anthony Good and published in the Palgrave Macmillan socio-legal studies book series.<\/p>\n
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Drawing on research material from ten European countries,\u00a0Asylum Determination in Europe: Ethnographic Perspectives<\/i><\/a>\u00a0brings together a range of detailed accounts of the legal and bureaucratic processes by which asylum claims are decided. The book includes a legal overview of European asylum determination procedures, followed by sections on the diverse actors involved, the means by which they communicate, and the ways in which they make life and death decisions on a daily basis. It offers a contextually rich account that moves beyond doctrinal law to uncover the gaps and variances between formal policy and legislation, and law as actually practiced.<\/p>\n The contributors employ a variety of disciplinary perspectives \u2013 sociological, anthropological, geographical and linguistic \u2013 but are united in their use of an ethnographic methodological approach. Through this lens, the book captures the confusion, improvisation, inconsistency, complexity and emotional turmoil inherent to the process of claiming asylum in Europe.<\/p>\n \n Introduction (html<\/a>) (pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n Nick Gill and Anthony Good<\/p>\n \n Legal Overview (html<\/a>) (pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n Sarah Craig and Karin Zwaan<\/p>\n \n Part I: Actors<\/u><\/p>\n \n The \u201cInner Belief \u201d of French Asylum Judges (html<\/a>) (pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n Carolina Kobelinsky<\/p>\n \n \u201cIt\u2019s All About Naming Things Right\u201d: The Paradox of Web Truths in the Belgian Asylum-Seeking Procedure (html<\/a>) (pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n Massimiliano Spotti<\/p>\n \n The World of Home Office Presenting Officers (html<\/a>) (pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n John R. Campbell<\/p>\n \n Asylum Procedures in Greece: The Case of Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Minors (html<\/a>) (pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n Chrisa Giannopoulou and Nick Gill<\/p>\n \n Part II Communication<\/u><\/p>\n \n Why Handling Power Responsibly Matters: The Active Interpreter Through the Sociological Lens (html<\/a>) (pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n Julia Dahlvik<\/p>\n \n Communicative Practices and Contexts of Interaction in the Refugee Status Determination Process in France (html<\/a>) (pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n Robert Gibb<\/p>\n \n Narrating Asylum in Camp and at Court (html<\/a>) (pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n Matilde Skov Danstr\u00f8m and Zachary Whyte<\/p>\n \n Interactions and Identities in UK Asylum Appeals: Lawyers and Law in a Quasi-Legal Setting (html<\/a>) (pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n Jessica Hambly<\/p>\n \n Part III Decision-Making<\/u><\/p>\n \n What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Credibility? Refugee Appeals in Italy (html<\/a>) (pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n Barbara Sorgoni<\/p>\n \n Making the Right Decision: Justice in the Asylum Bureaucracy in Norway (html<\/a>) (pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n Tone Maia Liodden<\/p>\n \n Taking the \u2018Just\u2019 Decision: Caseworkers and Their Communities of Interpretation in the Swiss Asylum Office (html<\/a>) (pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n Laura Affolter, Jonathan Miaz and Ephraim Poertner<\/p>\n \n Becoming a Decision-Maker, or: \u201cDon\u2019t Turn Your Heart into a Den of Thieves and Murderers\u201d (html<\/a>) (pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n Stephanie Schneider<\/p>\n \n Conclusion (html<\/a>) (pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n Nick Gill<\/p>\n \n The whole book is available as a .pdf here:\u00a0https:\/\/link.springer.com\/content\/pdf\/10.1007%2F978-3-319-94749-5.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n Nick Gill<\/b> Current Project: Fair and Consistent Asylum Appeals in Europe (ASYFAIR)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nProfessor of Human Geography
\nUniversity of Exeter<\/p>\n