Re-Cording Lives

Front matter

[transcript | Social and Cultural Geography

Ephraim Pörtner Re-Cording Lives

Social and Cultural Geography | Volume 41

Contents

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PART | - Agentic Formations

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PART III - (De)Stabilisations

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Summary PART Ill

References... are a ne 411

Figures and Tables

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Asylum applications and recognition rate in Switzerland (1968- 2017) | 26

Enactment, stabilisation, and effects of the dispositif | 71 Evaluations of asylum procedure, outcomes and respective legal status | 103

Schematic overview of asylum office before and after reorganisation | 110

Desk with case files in the headquarters | 154

File directory of asylum case | 157

COI note concerning the “situation of homosexuals” in Uganda | 166

LINGUA expertise form | 169

Case trajectories and processual events of case-making | 188 Personal form for asylum applicants | 191

Extract from applicant’s potential “hits” in different databases | 194

Internal triage form of asylum case file | 235

The SEM archive | 242

Front pages of decision* with and without outline of the outcome | 265

Dispositive* of asylum decision* stating its legal consequences | 277

“Production” of section counting statistically relevant completions | 362

Newspaper article on productivity pressure: “In the Asylum Factory” | 367

Figure 18: Sketch of how things relate in the asylum dispositif’s enactment | 400 Table 1: Considerations for evaluation of “persecution relevance” | 118

Selected Abbreviations and Acronyms

ANT APPA

AsylA CBCA COI DAWES

EMARK

EURODAC FAC

FNA FOM

IOM LINGUA NPM SAM

SEM STS

UNHCR ZEMIS

Actor-Network Theory

Asylpraxis/Pratique en matière d’asile: Internal document outlining the asylum practice for a country of origin

Swiss Asylum Act

Criteria-Based Content Analysis

Country of Origin Information

Dismissal of Admission Without Entering into the Substance of the case (Nichteintretensentscheid NEE)

Entscheidungen und Mitteilungen der ARK (Rulings and notifications of the AAC)

EU asylum fingerprint database

Federal Administrative Court (Bundesverwaltungsgericht BVGer)

Swiss Foreign Nationals Act

Federal Office for Migration (Bundesamt für Migration BFM). (FOM became the State Secretariat for Migration SEM in 2015.) International Organisation for Migration

Specialized unit for analyses of origin in Switzerland

New Public Management

Specialized unit for hearing management in the headquarters of the SEM

State Secretariat for Migration (Staatssekretariat für Migration) Science, Technology and Society or Science and Technology Studies

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Zentrales Migrationsinformationssystem (Central migration information system)