Asylum Determination in Europe

Nick Gill is Professor of Human Geography, University of Exeter, UK.Anthony Good is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

• Chapter 1. Introduction; Nick Gill and Anthony Good.- Chapter 2. Legal Overview; Sarah Craig and Karin Zwaan.- PART I – ACTORS.- Chapter 3. The “Inner Belief” of French Asylum Judges; Carolina Kobelinsky.- Chapter 4. “It’s All about Naming Things Right”: The Paradox of Web Truths in the Belgian Asylum-Seeking Procedure; Massimiliano Spotti.- Chapter 5. The World of Home Office Presenting Officers; John R. Campbell.- Chapter 6. Asylum Procedures in Greece: The Case of Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Minors; Chrisa Giannopoulou and Nick Gill.- PART II – COMMUNICATION.-  Chapter 7. Why Handling Power Responsibly Matters: The Active Interpreter Through the Sociological Lense; Julia Dahlvik.- Chapter 8. Communicative Practices and Contexts of Interaction in the Refugee Status Determination Process in France; Robert Gibb.- Chapter 9. Narrating Asylum in Camp and at Court; Matilde Skov Danstrøm and Zachary Whyte.- Chapter 10. Interactions and Identities in UK Asylum Appeals: Lawyers and Law in a Quasi-Legal Setting; Jessica Hambly.- PART III – DECISION-MAKING.-  Chapter 11. What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Credibility? Refugee Appeals in Italy; Barbara Sorgoni.- Chapter 12. Making the Right Decision: Justice in the Asylum Bureaucracy in Norway; Tone Maia Liodden.-  Chapter 13. Taking the ‘Just’ Decision: Caseworkers and Their Communities of Interpretation in the Swiss Asylum Office; Laura Affolter, Jonathan Miaz, Ephraim Poertner.- Chapter 14. Becoming a Decision-Maker, or 'Don't Turn Your Heart Into a Den of Thieves and Murderers'; Stephanie Schneider.- Conclusion; Nick Gill.