{"id":2598,"date":"2019-01-16T17:29:05","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T16:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmig.wordpress.com\/?p=2598"},"modified":"2019-01-16T17:29:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T16:29:05","slug":"taking-the-just-decision-caseworkers-and-their-communities-of-interpretation-in-the-swiss-asylum-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=2598","title":{"rendered":"Taking the \u2018Just\u2019 Decision: Caseworkers and Their Communities of Interpretation in the Swiss Asylum Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Author(s) : Laura Affolter, Jonathan Miaz, Ephraim Poertner<\/h3>\n<h3>Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-319-94749-5_13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/978-3-319-94749-5_13<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Abstract: <\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Decision-making in street-level bureaucracies has often been portrayed as being riddled with a practical dilemma: that of having to juggle between compassion and rigid rule-following. However, drawing on three ethnographic studies of Swiss asylum administration, we argue that often what are from the \u2018outside\u2019 perceived as conflicting rationales of decision-making, are not experienced as such by the caseworkers themselves. Rather these different rationales are made to fit. We argue that decision-makers\u2019 \u2018volitional allegiance\u2019 with the office plays a crucial role thereby. For the caseworkers we encountered, decision-making is about taking \u2018just decisions\u2019, i.e. decisions that they consider \u2018correct\u2019 and \u2018fair\u2019. We suggest that these notions of correctness and fairness are crucially influenced by their affiliations and allegiances with different \u2018communities of interpretation\u2019 within the office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s) : Laura Affolter, Jonathan Miaz, Ephraim Poertner Source :&#8230;<\/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":[285,111,112,32,310,9,311,113],"class_list":["post-2598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-285","tag-asylum-applications","tag-asylum-procedure","tag-book-chapter","tag-decision-making","tag-english-language","tag-interpreting","tag-public-administration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598","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=2598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}