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Die Anhörung im Asylverfahren ist seit über 60 Jahren die bedeutendste Etappe für Asylbewerber*innen in Deutschland. Nur in dieser einmaligen mündlichen Anhörung können die Antragsteller*innen Gründe für ihr Asylgesuch vortragen und ihre Fluchtgeschichte rekonstruieren - doch dieser Prozess wurde bisher kaum untersucht. Anhand von Fallanalysen zeigt Samah Abdelkader auf, dass die Rekonstruktionsverfahren während der Befragung nicht planlos entstehen, sondern methodisch systematischen Techniken folgen und sich an drei Kategorien orientieren: der internen sowie der externen Kohärenzprüfung der Fluchtgeschichte und der Prüfung von außertextuellen Indikatoren.

Social sciences (general) --- Institutionelle Kommunikation; Flucht; Migration; Kultur; Asylverfahren; Anhörung; Verwaltung; Recht; Sprache; Soziale Ungleichheit; Flüchtlingsforschung; Migrationspolitik; Soziologie; Communication In Institution; Fleeing; Culture; Asylum Procedure; Hearing; Administration; Law; Language; Social Inequality; Refugee Studies; Migration Policy; Sociology --- Administration. --- Asylum Procedure. --- Culture. --- Fleeing. --- Hearing. --- Language. --- Law. --- Migration Policy. --- Migration. --- Refugee Studies. --- Social Inequality. --- Sociology.

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This open access book provides an enriched understanding of historical, collective, cultural, and identity-related trauma, emphasising the social and political location of human subjects. It therefore presents a socio-ecological perspective on trauma, rather than viewing displaced individuals as traumatised “passive victims”. The vastness of the phenomenon of trauma among displaced populations has led it to become a critical and timely area of inquiry, and this book is an important addition to the literature. It gives an overview of theoretical frameworks related to trauma and migration—exploring factors of risk and resilience, prevalence rates of PTSD, and conceptualisations of trauma beyond psychiatric diagnoses; conceptualises experiences of trauma from a sociocultural perspective (including collective trauma, collective aspirations, and collective resilience); and provides applications for professionals working with displaced populations in complex institutional, legal, and humanitarian settings. It includes case studies based on the author’s own 10-year experience working in emergency contexts with displaced populations in 11 countries across the world. This book presents unique data collected by the author herself, including interviews with survivors of ISIS attacks, with an asylum seeker in Switzerland who set himself alight in protest against asylum procedures, and women from the Murle tribe affected by the conflict in South Sudan who experienced an episode of mass fainting spells. This is an important resource for academics and professionals working in the field of trauma studies and with traumatised groups and individuals.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has causedenormous upheaval at the micro-, meso- and macrosocial levels, with a profound influence on the diverse dimensions of human existence. This reprint offers contributions by authors from various backgrounds and origins for a better understanding of the multiple and interdependent consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic that pose multiple and complex scientific, moral, social and political challenges, considered from social science perspectives.

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This open access book examines everyday practices in an asylum administration. Asylum decisions are often criticised as being ‘subjective’ or ‘arbitrary’. Asylum Matters turns this claim on its head. Through the ethnographic study of asylum decision-making in the Swiss Secretariat for Migration, the book shows how regularities in administrative practice and ‘socialised subjectivity’ are produced. It argues that asylum caseworkers acquire an institutional habitus through their socialisation on the job, making them ‘carriers’ of routine practices. The different chapters of the book deal with what it means to methodologically study administrative practice: with how asylum proceedings work in Switzerland and with the role different types of knowledge play in overcoming the uncertainties inherent in refugee status and credibility determination. It sheds light on organisational socialisation processes and on the professional norms and values at the heart of administrative work. By doing so, it shows how disbelief becomes normalised in the office. This book speaks to legal scholars, sociologists, anthropologists, human geographers and political scientists interested in bureaucracy, asylum law, migration studies and socio-legal studies, and to NGOs working in the field of asylum. Laura Affolter is a postdoctoral researcher in the Research Group Sociology of Law at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Germany, and Associate Researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology in Bern, Switzerland. Her (co-authored) publications include Taking the ‘Just’ Decision (2019) and Keeping Numbers Low in the Name of Fairness (2020).

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