{"id":33732,"date":"2021-07-05T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmig.wordpress.com\/?p=33732"},"modified":"2021-07-05T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T07:00:00","slug":"trained-to-disbelieve-the-normalisation-of-suspicion-in-a-swiss-asylum-administration-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=33732","title":{"rendered":"Trained to Disbelieve: The Normalisation of Suspicion in a Swiss Asylum Administration Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Author(s) : Laura Affolter<\/h3>\n<h3>Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/14650045.2021.1897577\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/14650045.2021.1897577<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"hlFld-Abstract\">\n<div class=\"abstractSection abstractInFull\">&#8220;In Switzerland, as in many other countries of the Global North, most asylum applicants are rejected because they are not believed. This has led many scholars to criticise the so-called \u2018culture of disbelief\u2019 in asylum administrations. On the basis of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the Swiss Secretariat for Migration (SEM), this article explores what this \u2018culture of disbelief\u2019 consists of, how it plays out in everyday decision-making and how, at the same time, it is constituted by these practices. Drawing on a practice-theoretical approach to administrative work, the article proposes conceptualising disbelief as practice rather than a state of mind. It brings to light several aspects which either form part of this practice itself \u2013 decision-maker\u2019s implicit knowledge and routinised strategies for questioning applicants in asylum interviews, for example \u2013 or which shape this practice of disbelief \u2013 such as organisational socialisation and decision-makers\u2019 role as state agents and \u2018guardians of a restricted good\u2019. The article reveals how suspicion does not unilaterally shape decision-makers\u2019 practices, but how it is also reaffirmed through everyday decision-making. Building on this, it argues that decision-makers\u2019 practices are both constituted by and constitutive of public political discourse and migration governance.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s) : Laura Affolter Source : https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/14650045.2021.1897577<\/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":[693,7,111,49,112,50,310,9,634,302,154,36,113,621,347],"class_list":["post-33732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-693","tag-article","tag-asylum-applications","tag-asylum-policy","tag-asylum-procedure","tag-asylum-seekers","tag-decision-making","tag-english-language","tag-ethnography","tag-governance","tag-interviews","tag-migration-policy","tag-public-administration","tag-street-level-bureaucracy","tag-testimonies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33732","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=33732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}