Regular matters: credibility determination and the institutional habitus in a Swiss asylum office

Abstract This article seeks to understand a common and regular feature of asylum decision-making, namely, that the majority of asylum claims are rejected, mostly on the basis of non-credibility. It draws on a bottom-up, qualitative study of an administration in which asylum decision-making takes pla...

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Main Author: Laura Affolter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2021-01-01
Series:Comparative Migration Studies
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-020-00215-z