![]() ; ; et al in Political Geography (2022), 98 The Common European Asylum System aims to establish common standards for refugee status determination among EU Member States. Combining insights from legal and political geography we bring the depth and ... [more ▼] The Common European Asylum System aims to establish common standards for refugee status determination among EU Member States. Combining insights from legal and political geography we bring the depth and scale of this challenge into sharp relief. Drawing on interviews and a detailed ethnography of asylum adjudication involving over 850 in-person asylum appeal observations, we point towards practical differences in the spatio-temporality, materiality and logistics of asylum appeal processes as they are operationalised in seven European countries. Our analysis achieves three things. Firstly, we identify a key zone of differences at the level of concrete, everyday implementation that has largely escaped academic attention, which allows us to critically assess the notion of harmonisation of asylum policies in new ways. Secondly, drawing on legal- and political-geographical concepts, we offer a way to conceptualise this zone by paying attention to the spatio-temporality, materiality and logistics it involves. Thirdly, we offer critical legal logistics as a new direction for scholarship in legal geography and beyond that promises to prise open the previously obscured mechanics of contemporary legal systems. [less ▲] Detailed reference viewed: 12 (0 UL)![]() Vianelli, Lorenzo ![]() in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2022), 48(5), 1013-1032 This article diagnoses and critiques a type of governmentality associated with waiting during protracted asylum appeal procedures by drawing upon data from a multi-methodological study of asylum ... [more ▼] This article diagnoses and critiques a type of governmentality associated with waiting during protracted asylum appeal procedures by drawing upon data from a multi-methodological study of asylum adjudication in Europe. Focusing on Austria, Germany and Italy, we explore the use of integration-related considerations in asylum appeal processes by looking at the ways in which these considerations permeate judges’ decision-making, particularly, but not exclusively, on the granting of national, non-EU harmonised protection statuses. Building on insights from the literature on conditional integration we question the implicit sociopolitical biases and moral assumptions that underpin this permeation. We show that the use of integration-related considerations in asylum appeals transforms migrant waiting into a period of probation during which rejected asylum seekers’ conducts are governed and tested in relation to the use of time. More than simply waiting patiently, rejected asylum seekers are expected to wait productively, whereby productivity is assessed through the neoliberal imperatives of entrepreneurship, autonomy and selfimprovement. We thus contribute to scholarship on migrant waiting by showing how time is capitalised by state authorities even when – and actually because – it offers opportunities for migrants. [less ▲] Detailed reference viewed: 95 (3 UL)![]() ; ; Vianelli, Lorenzo ![]() in Forced Migration Review (2020), (65), 32-35 Detailed reference viewed: 67 (8 UL)![]() ; ; Vianelli, Lorenzo ![]() in Forced Migration Review (2020), (65), 32-35 Les études menées dans un certain nombre de juridictions européennes suggèrent qu’au stade du recours, les formations collégiales améliorent la qualité et l’équité du processus de détermination du statut ... [more ▼] Les études menées dans un certain nombre de juridictions européennes suggèrent qu’au stade du recours, les formations collégiales améliorent la qualité et l’équité du processus de détermination du statut de réfugié (DSR). [less ▲] Detailed reference viewed: 42 (3 UL)![]() ; ; Vianelli, Lorenzo ![]() in Forced Migration Review (2020), (65), 32-35 تشير البحوث في طائفةٍ من الاختصاصات القضائية الأوربية إلى أنّ استعمال الهيئات القضائية المتعددة الأعضاء في مرحلة الاستئناف يحسِّن جودةَ تقرير صفة اللاجئ وإنصافَه. Detailed reference viewed: 42 (9 UL)![]() ; ; Vianelli, Lorenzo ![]() in Forced Migration Review (2020), (65), 32-35 Research across a range of European jurisdictions suggests that the use of multi-member judicial panels at appeal stage improves the quality and fairness of RSD Detailed reference viewed: 30 (2 UL) |
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