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Producing Knowledge and Legitimacy: Country of Origin Information in Asylum Procedures
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Producing Knowledge and Legitimacy: Country of Origin Information in Asylum Procedures
Description
This thesis deals with “country of origin information” (COI), a specific type of expert knowledge and a field of professional practices that has emerged since the late 1980’s in the framework of West European and North American asylum administrations in order to support refugee status determination. This information is used to evaluate the credibility of asylum seekers and to assess their eligibility to international protection.
Rather than focusing on this instrumental role COI in asylum procedures, this research explores the norms and values that govern the works of COI units in several European asylum administrations. It also delineates the relationships between the notions of authority and legitimacy when referring to knowledge, individual actors, and state institutions. The format of the thesis is a PhD by published work comprising three article.
Rather than focusing on this instrumental role COI in asylum procedures, this research explores the norms and values that govern the works of COI units in several European asylum administrations. It also delineates the relationships between the notions of authority and legitimacy when referring to knowledge, individual actors, and state institutions. The format of the thesis is a PhD by published work comprising three article.
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Date de début
1 Décembre 2014
Date de fin
18 Décembre 2019
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- PublicationMétadonnées seulement
- PublicationMétadonnées seulement« We have our own kitchen » : distance et légitimité dans la production de savoir pour la procédure d’asile(2019)La stricte séparation entre la production d’informations sur les pays d’origine (COI pour country of origin information) et l’évaluation des demandes d’asile est une norme fondamentale de la pratique professionnelle des producteurs de COI. En se penchant sur l’unité COI norvégienne, cet article examine la manière dont cette séparation est matérialisée à travers une véritable infrastructure de distanciation mise en place autour des sites de production des COI. Ce dispositif se manifeste non seulement dans les discours et les pratiques, mais aussi dans les structures organisationnelles, les lieux et les normes légales qui participent à l’écologie de la situation d’expertise particulière que constituent les COI. Il participe à la construction de la légitimité des institutions, mais aussi des acteurs impliqués dans la production du savoir.
- PublicationMétadonnées seulementLe savoir sur les pays d’origine dans les procédures d’asile. Construction et négociation institutionnelle de la réalité(2015-3-18)Les informations sur les pays d’origine jouent un rôle toujours plus important dans l’évaluation des demandes d’asile. Cet article présente la place de ces informations dans les procédures et décrit les moyens dont disposent les deux instances du système suisse de l’asile – le SEM et le TAF – pour les récolter. Le rapport entre les savoirs produits et interprétés par chacune de ces deux instances dans l’établissement des faits est conçu comme une construction dialogique de la réalité dans les pays d’origine. Herkunftsländerinformationen spielen bei der Prüfung von Asylgesuchen eineimmer grössere Rolle. Der Beitrag schildert die Bedeutung dieser Informatio-nen in den Asylverfahren und beschreibt welche Mittel den beiden Instanzendes Schweizerischen Asylsystems — dem SEM und BVGer — zur Verfügungstehen, um diese Informationen zu sammeln. Zwischen dem Wissen, welchesvon jeder der beiden Instanzen produziert und interpretiert wird, besteht eineBeziehung innerhalb welcher die Ermittlung des Sachverhaltes als ein dialogi-sches Herausarbeiten der Realität in den Herkunftsländern betrachtet wird.
- PublicationAccès libre
- PublicationAccès libreNegotiating research in the shadow of migration control: access, knowledge, and cognitive authority(2019)
; This article recounts the failure to gain access to the Swiss asylum agency's ‘country of origin information’ (COI) unit and how it negatively impacted access to similar research sites in Europe. As producers of indispensable expert knowledge, these units play an important instrumental and symbolic role in asylum procedures and policies. Interpreted as a situated case of knowledge control, rather than a general resistance to research within the institution, the denial of access reveals how the intended research challenged gatekeepers’ idealised construction of COI – both as a type of knowledge and as a field of practice. The negotiation about access gradually shifted to other topics, such as the researcher's competence, the field's situation and the nature of legitimate knowledge – all related to politics of expertise and the COI units’ legitimising functions in the wider migration apparatus. The negotiation became a competition over cognitive authority and the monopoly of legitimate knowledge production about the field. By black‐boxing country information, the gatekeepers fostered the illegibility of bureaucratic processes and the legibility of the state as discourse. Analysing the 30‐month negotiation process also reveals the difficulties to seize the contours of the state when encountering transnational bureaucratic fields. - PublicationAccès libre
- PublicationAccès libreKnowledge and legitimacy in asylum decision-making: the politics of country of origin information(2020)
- PublicationAccès libreThe Eritrea report: Symbolic uses of expert information in asylum politics(2015)
; Liodden, Tone MaiaThis paper discusses the role of country of origin information (COI) in asylum policies by examining the debate about a controversial Danish report on Eritrea that has been used to attempt to legitimise a restrictive turn in Danish asylum policy. Following substantial criticism, Danish authorities changed their policy interpretation of the report and returned to their former practice when dealing with asylum applications made by Eritreans. Nevertheless,the number of Eritrean applications lodged in Denmark has since dropped sharply and the report has influenced other asylum receiving states in Europe. The Eritrea case suggests that COI may function as a potential means of deterrence and that the boundaries between COI and policy goals blur easily, such that the production of knowledge becomes a site of political negotiation.