Based on a case study on the former Austrian Federal Asylum Agency, the book provides sociological insights on state action in the administration of asylum in a European context. It offers a novel perspective on public administration by complementing the approaches of street-level bureaucracy and organizational sociology with theories of social practice and structuration. The study deals with t…
Public administration of asylum applications in Europe; Determining refugee status in street-level bureaucracy; Individual-institution interaction; Institutional ethnography; Theory of social practices; Immigration in Europe