TY - BOOK ID - 32967649 TI - Inside Asylum Bureaucracy: Organizing Refugee Status Determination in Austria PY - 2018 SN - 3319633066 3319633058 PB - Springer Nature DB - UniCat KW - Social sciences. KW - Sociology. KW - Emigration and immigration. KW - Social Sciences. KW - Migration. KW - Sociology, general. KW - Immigration KW - International migration KW - Migration, International KW - Population geography KW - Assimilation (Sociology) KW - Colonization KW - Social theory KW - Social sciences KW - Behavioral sciences KW - Human sciences KW - Sciences, Social KW - Social science KW - Social studies KW - Civilization KW - Public administration of asylum applications in Europe KW - Determining refugee status in street-level bureaucracy KW - Institutional ethnography KW - Theory of social practices KW - Immigration in Europe KW - Individual-institution interaction UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32967649 AB - This open access monograph provides sociological insight into governmental action on the administration of asylum in the European context. It offers an in-depth understanding of how decision-making officials encounter and respond to structural contradictions in the asylum procedure produced by diverging legal, political, and administrative objectives. The study focuses on structural aspects on the one hand, such as legal and organisational elements, and aspects of agency on the other hand, examining the social practices and processes going on at the frontside and the backside of the administrative asylum system. Coverage is based on a case study using ethnographic methods, including qualitative interviews, participant observation, as well as artefact analysis. This case study is positioned within a broader context and allows for comparison within and beyond the European system, building a bridge to the international scientific community. In addition, the author links the empirical findings to sociological theory. She explains the identified patterns of social practice in asylum administration along the theories of social practices, social construction and structuration. This helps to contribute to the often missing theoretical development in this particular field of research. Overall, this book provides a sociological contribution to a key issue in today's debate on immigration in Europe and beyond. It will appeal to researchers, policy makers, administrators, and practitioners as well as students and readers interested in immigration and asylum. ER -