Asylum Matters

Laura Affolter is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Research Group Sociology of Law at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Germany, and Associate Researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology in Bern, Switzerland. Her (co-authored) publications include Taking the ‘Just’ Decision (2019) and Keeping Numbers Low in the Name of Fairness (2020).

• Chapter 1 Shaping Administrative Practice: The Institutional HabitusChapter 2 Studying Everyday Practice(s) in the SEMChapter 3 Asylum Decision-Making in SwitzerlandChapter 4 Knowledge as Practice: Producing Decisional CertaintyChapter 5 Getting in Line with the OfficeChapter 6 The Good Decision-Maker or Protecting the SystemChapter 7 The Normalisation of Disbelief