Project description
Navigating the complexities of asylum knowledge
Asylum determination is complex and contested. While expert knowledge is a crucial foundation for asylum decisions, it is increasingly put under pressure by the high levels of polarisation and politicisation. The ERC-funded ASYKNOW project provides fresh insights into this pressing global challenge by unravelling the complexities of asylum litigation in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Germany. This groundbreaking initiative transcends conventional methods, bridging diverse disciplines to examine how knowledge claims gain authority, how legal strategies evolve, and how various knowledge types shape state power over individuals and spaces. As such, the project is poised to reshape the role of expert knowledge in asylum governance.
Objective
Migration, and particularly the question of asylum, has become one of the most pressing and polarizing issues of our time. Scholars have highlighted how the high level of contestation and politicization in this area has increased the demand for a wide range of expert knowledge. At the same time, this situation has thrown expert knowledge into a terrain of conflict. Consequently, the notion that expert knowledge provides a proper foundation for legal decision-making regarding asylum is under pressure. ASYKNOW will develop new conceptual tools for understanding the role of expert knowledge in asylum governance by investigating the ways in which knowledge about asylum seekers and migration is constituted and contested through asylum litigation. The project moves beyond traditional approaches to expert knowledge in migration scholarship, which has largely examined the content of decisions and adopted a one-directional approach to expert knowledge as an instrumental and/or symbolic tool of states domination. Instead, a focus on asylum litigation allows us to examine 1) how knowledge claims attain meaning and authority through the relational dynamics between differently situated actors, 2) how legal thresholds and tactics evolve as they pertain to the use of expert knowledge, and 3) how types of knowledges and knowledge claims facilitate or challenge states ability to exercise power over bodies and spaces. ASYKNOW brings together theoretical concepts, methodological approaches, and findings from geography, anthropology, law, and Science and Technology Studies (STS) that have hitherto remained fairly separate with regard to the study of migration into a novel and productive dialogue. Methodologically, the project adopts an ambitious in-depth comparative research design that innovatively combines an ethnography of legal processes with legal archaeology. Empirically, the research will focus on litigation of asylum-related cases in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Germany.
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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5020 Bergen
Norway
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