Making workable knowledge for asylum decisions: on tinkering with country of origin information.
As the number of asylum seekers grew, and flight stories became more complex, many Western governments deployed national research units, tasked with producing reliable Country of Origin Information (COI) to assist officials, judges and policy-makers in decision-making. Building on ethnographic resea...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 50; no. 9; pp. 2309 - 2327 |
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May2024
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=176695551&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 176695551 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 1369183X 56F jtl: Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies issn: 1369183X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: May2024 vid: 50 iid: 9 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 176695551 10.1080/1369183X.2024.2307784 ppf: 2309 ppct: 18 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.2MB tig: atl: Making workable knowledge for asylum decisions: on tinkering with country of origin information. aug: au: van der Kist, Jasper affil: Department of Politics, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK su: Political refugees Emigration & immigration Feminists Uncertainty Decision making sug: subj: Political refugees Emigration & immigration Feminists Uncertainty Decision making keyword: asylum decisions country of origin information knowledge politics refugee status determination Tinkering ab: As the number of asylum seekers grew, and flight stories became more complex, many Western governments deployed national research units, tasked with producing reliable Country of Origin Information (COI) to assist officials, judges and policy-makers in decision-making. Building on ethnographic research at Staatendokumentation, the COI unit at the Austrian Federal Office for Immigration and Asylum, the paper argues that country research practices can best be understood as 'tinkering' – e.g. making use of know-how, equipment, material sources at disposal to produce workable COI in conditions of uncertainty. The concept of tinkering is derived from science and technology studies (STS) and brings into view how the research professionals cobble together a workable version of reality with the methodologies and materials at hand. Moreover, it highlights how country research involves continuous modification and adjustments to satisfy the needs of the unwitting case officer as the end-user of COI reports. Finally, using insights from feminist science and technology studies, the paper shows how country experts foster care for some things – i.e. the workload of case officers – at the expense of others – i.e. the experience of the asylum seeker. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2024 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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