Working the Dutch Asylum Apparatus

An Ethnography of Suspicious Compassion and State Power

Maja Hertoghs (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

220 Seiten

2026
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-83695-431-6 (ISBN)

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Dutch asylum procedure is a peculiar legal procedure that gathers different people and sensitivities together to make swift, life-altering decisions for those applying for protection. Based on an extensive ethnography, this book examines how the Netherlands engages with asylum procedure and the ways in which suspicious compassion pervades an objective decision-making practice.

Since the 1970s, the recurring discourse of a ‘refugee crisis’ in Europe has affected border strategies that create a context of suspicion and criminalise asylum applicants. This book examines how the Netherlands engages with the arrival of certain (often illegalised) travellers and the asylum procedure, a tense liminal space and time that ensures decisions of in- and exclusion. Dutch asylum procedure is a peculiar legal procedure that gathers different people and sensitivities together to make swift, life-altering decisions for those applying for protection. Based on an extensive ethnography, this book reveals the ways in which suspicious compassion in Dutch asylum pervades an objective decision-making practice.

Maja Hertoghs is Assistant Professor teaching anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. She has worked extensively in critical border and migration studies.

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Concentrated Sites and Times of the Asylum Procedure

Chapter 2. Interfacing the Procedure: The Itinerary and the Procedural Personae

Chapter 3. Noisy Hearings and Silent Reports

Chapter 4. Objective Subjectivities

Conclusion: State Intensities, Being in Touch with the State

References

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.3.2026
Reihe/Serie	Forced Migration
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography; Index
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-83695-431-X / 183695431X
ISBN-13	978-1-83695-431-6 / 9781836954316
Zustand	Neuware