{"id":25956,"date":"2021-01-18T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmig.wordpress.com\/?p=25956"},"modified":"2021-01-18T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T07:00:00","slug":"studying-everyday-practices-in-the-sem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=25956","title":{"rendered":"Studying Everyday Practice(s) in the SEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Author(s) : Laura Affolter<\/h3>\n<h3>Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-030-61512-3_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-030-61512-3_2<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Abstract: <\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"hlFld-Abstract\">\n<div class=\"abstractSection abstractInFull\">&#8220;This chapter explores what it means to study a bureaucracy at work. It outlines my methodological approach for analysing everyday practices in the SEM [Swiss State Secretariat for Migration], the challenges I encountered during fieldwork as well as the methodological limits of this study. Building on Reckwitz\u2019s (<em class=\"EmphasisTypeItalic \">European Journal of Social Theory<\/em> 5: 243\u2013263, 2002) definition of practice, I argue that methodological triangulation and particularly participant observation\u2014mostly in the form of following administrative caseworkers around in their daily work\u2014are crucial for analysing both the discursive and non-discursive aspects of practices. Yet, at the same time, following Hitchings (<em class=\"EmphasisTypeItalic \">Area<\/em> 44: 61\u201367, 2012), I challenge the claim made by some authors that discursive methods are methodologically unfitting for researching practices from a practice theoretical perspective. Rather, I argue that people\u2019s retrospective descriptions of past events, their explicit knowledge of rules and norms and particularly their capacity to reflect on why they do what they do provide us with valuable insights into everyday practice.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"abstractSection abstractInFull\">\n<div id=\"articleAbstract\"><strong>Keywords<\/strong>: <span class=\"Keyword\">Asylum law, <\/span><span class=\"Keyword\">Fieldwork, Institutional ethnography, Methodological triangulation, Participant observation, Practice theory\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s) : Laura Affolter Source : https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-030-61512-3_2 Abstract:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[654,111,112,50,32,9,634,325,36,113,621,74],"class_list":["post-25956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-654","tag-asylum-applications","tag-asylum-procedure","tag-asylum-seekers","tag-book-chapter","tag-english-language","tag-ethnography","tag-methodology","tag-migration-policy","tag-public-administration","tag-street-level-bureaucracy","tag-theory"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}