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Working the Dutch Asylum Apparatus: An Ethnography of Suspicious Compassion and State Power

By (author) Maja Hertoghs





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Since the 1970s, the recurring discourse of a ‘refugee crisis’ in Europe has affected border strategies that create a context of suspicion and criminalise asylum applicants. This book examines how the Netherlands engages with the arrival of certain (often illegalised) travellers and the asylum procedure, a tense liminal space and time that ensures decisions of in- and exclusion. Dutch asylum procedure is a peculiar legal procedure that gathers different people and sensitivities together to make swift, life-altering decisions for those applying for protection. Based on an extensive ethnography, this book reveals the ways in which suspicious compassion in Dutch asylum pervades an objective decision-making practice.  

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Publisher | Berghahn Books
Published date | 1 Mar 2026
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Format | Digital download and online
Pages | 220
Dimensions | 0 x 0 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-8369-5432-3
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BISAC | social science / anthropology / cultural

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