{"product_id":"9781836954316","title":"PRE-ORDER NOW Working the Dutch Asylum Apparatus : An Ethnography of Suspicious Compassion and State Power by Maja Hertoghs","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 01\/03\/2026 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSince 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. ? \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56369300570485,"sku":"9781836954316","price":104.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781836954316","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}