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Since the 1970s, the recurring discourse of a ‘refugee crisis’ in Europe has affected border strategies that create a context of suspicion and criminalise asylum applicants. This book examines how the Netherlands engages with the arrival of certain (often illegalised) travellers and the asylum procedure, a tense liminal space and time that ensures decisions of in- and exclusion. Dutch asylum procedure is a peculiar legal procedure that gathers different people and sensitivities together to make swift, life-altering decisions for those applying for protection. Based on an extensive ethnography, this book reveals the ways in which suspicious compassion in Dutch asylum pervades an objective decision-making practice.
“Maja Hertoghs has made a valuable empirical and conceptual contribution based on extensive and exhaustive fieldwork.” • Jordan Dez, University of Amsterdam
“(This book) proposes the interesting concept of state intensities, which I find quite compelling. It stands to make an important intervention in the anthropology of the state, of bureaucracy, and of borders.” • Anouk de Koning, University of Amsterdam
Maja Hertoghs is Assistant Professor teaching anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. She has worked extensively in critical border and migration studies.
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Concentrated Sites and Times of the Asylum Procedure
Chapter 2. Interfacing the Procedure: The Itinerary and the Procedural Personae
Chapter 3. Noisy Hearings and Silent Reports
Chapter 4. Objective Subjectivities
Conclusion: State Intensities, Being in Touch with the State
References
Index