Asylum Determination in Europe

Front matter

PALGRAVE SOCIO-LEGAL STUDIES

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Contents

Introduction Nick Gill and Anthony Good

Legal Overview Sarah Craig and Karin Zwaan

PartI Actors

Part II Communication

7 Why Handling Power Responsibly Matters: The Active Interpreter Through the Sociological Lens Julia Dahlvik

8 Communicative Practices and Contexts of Interaction in the Refugee Status Determination Process in France Robert Gibb

9 Narrating Asylum in Camp and at Court Matilde Skov Danstrom and Zachary Whyte

10 Interactions and Identities in UK Asylum Appeals: Lawyers and Law in a Quasi-Legal Setting Jessica Hambly

Part III Decision-Making

11 What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Credibility? Refugee Appeals in Italy Barbara Sorgoni

12 Making the Right Decision: Justice in the Asylum Bureaucracy in Norway Tone Maia Liodden

13 Taking the ‘Just’ Decision: Caseworkers and Their Communities of Interpretation in the Swiss Asylum Office

Laura Affolter, Jonathan Miaz and Ephraim Poertner

14 Becoming a Decision-Maker, or: “Don’t Turn Your Heart into a Den of Thieves and Murderers”

Stephanie Schneider

15 Conclusion Nick Gill