09 September 2021

Round-up: Asylum & Migration Bureaucracies

Note: This listing is not comprehensive! Most items date from 2020, but a few earlier studies are also included.

Books/book chapters/reports:

Asylum Matters: On the Front Line of Administrative Decision-Making (Springer, 2021) [open access]

"Beyond the ‘Migration Crisis’: The Evolving Role of EU Agencies in the Administrative Governance of the Asylum and External Border Control Policies," Chapter in The Role of EU Agencies in the Eurozone and Migration Crisis: Impact and Future Challenges (Palgrave Macmillan, Forthcoming Feb. 2021) [preprint]
- See also related chapter.

The Bureaucratic Production of Difference: Ethos and Ethics in Migration Administrations (Transcript, April 2020) [open access]

Dismantling and Reconstructing the U.S. Immigration System: A Catalog of Changes under the Trump Presidency (Migration Policy Institute, Aug. 2021) [access]

"Drivers of Expenditure Allocation in the IOM: Refugees, Donors, and International Bureaucracy," Chapter in The International Organization for Migration: The New ‘UN Migration Agency’ in Critical Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) [Academia]
- Scroll to p. 75.

Inside Asylum Bureaucracy: Organizing Refugee Status Determination in Austria (Springer, 2018) [open access]

"Introduction," Paper Trails: Migrants, Documents, and Legal Insecurity (Duke Univ. Press, 2020) [full-text]

Re-Cording Lives: Governing Asylum in Switzerland and the Need to Resolve (transcript Verlag, 2021) [open access]

Refugees and the Violence of Welfare Bureaucracies in Northern Europe (Manchester Univ. Press, 2020) [open access]
- See also related post on The Conversation.

Journal articles:

"Ambiguous goals, uneven implementation: how immigration offices shape internal immigration control in Germany," Comparative Migration Studies, 8:10 (Feb. 2020) [open access]

"Bureaucratic Barriers to Social Protection for Refugees and Asylum Seekers during the COVID-19 Disaster in South Africa," African Human Mobility Review, vol. 7, no. 2 (May-Aug. 2021) [full-text]

"A Case Study of Government and Civil Societies’ Collaboration and Challenges in Securing the Rights of Congolese Refugees Living in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa," South African Journal of Science, vol. 116, nos. 3/4 (2020) [open access]

"Explaining sentiment shifts in UN system annual reporting: a longitudinal comparison of UNHCR, UNRWA and IOM," International Review of Administrative Sciences, OnlineFirst, 20 July 2021 [open access]
- Note: Included in a forthcoming special issue on "International Bureaucracy and the United Nations System."

"Family lives on hold: Bureaucratic bordering in male refugees’ struggle for transnational care," Journal of Family Research, vol. 32, no. 3 (2020) [open access]

"‘Finland kills with a pen’: asylum seekers’ protest against bureaucratic violence as politics of human rights," Citizenship Studies, vol. 24, no. 8 (2020) [open access]

"Greece’s Discriminatory Migrant Regime: Volunteers, Informal Street-Level Bureaucrats, and Moral Rationalities," Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 34, no. 2 (June 2021) [open access]

"How Bureaucracy Conceals Obligations to Afghan Refugees," Sapiens, 9 Sept. 2021) [text]

"How Do Refugees Navigate the UNHCR’s Bureaucracy? The Role of Rumours in Accessing Humanitarian Aid and Resettlement," Third World Quarterly, Latest Articles, 14 June 2021 [open access]

"Immigration, Bureaucracies and Policy Formulation: The Case of Quebec," International Migration, vol. 58, no. 1 (Feb. 2020) [open access]

Journal of Legal Anthropology, vol. 3, no. 2 (Dec. 2019) [contents]
- Special issue on "Governing Migration through Paperwork." The introduction is freely available.

"Navigating Patchwork Governance: Somalis in Kenya, National Security, and Refugee Resettlement," African Studies Review, vol. 63, no. 1 (2020) [Academia]

"The Permission to be Cruel: Street-Level Bureaucrats and Harms Against People Seeking Asylum," Critical Criminology, Latest Articles, 12 June 2020 [free full-text]

"Regular matters: credibility determination and the institutional habitus in a Swiss asylum office," Comparative Migration Studies, 9:4 (Jan. 2021) [open access]

"The Role of Somali Kinship in Sustaining Bureaucratic Governance around Dagahaley Camp in Kenya," Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, Latest Articles, 11 June 2020 [Maseno Univ. IR]
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"Shaping migration at the border: the entangled rationalities of border control practices," Comparative Migration Studies, 9:5 (Feb. 2021) [open access]

"'What isn't in the files, isn't in the world': Understanding state ignorance of irregular migration in Germany and the United Kingdom," Governance, vol. 34, no. 2 (April 2021) [open access]

"Who is doing asylum in Niger? State bureaucrats’ perspectives and strategies on the externalization of refugee protection," Anthropologie & Développement, no. 51 (2020) [open access]

"Zealous Administration: The Deportation Bureaucracy," Rutgers University Law Review, vol. 72, no. 3 (Spring 2020) [full-text]

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