Overview

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.  

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""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 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

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Maja Hertoghs is Assistant Professor teaching anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. She has worked extensively in critical border and migration studies.

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