{"title":"Moral Economy and Knowledge Production in a Security Bureaucracy","authors":"W. Schiffauer","doi":"10.14361/9783839451045-004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839451045-004","url":null,"abstract":"Germany's 1999/2000 citizenship law marked a shift in the country's self-definition from a non-immigration country to an immigration country. The general opening up of the German nation-state was soon followed by new closures, however. Discussions began on who should, and who should not be accepted as members of the re-invented nation-state. The debate centred on Muslim immigrants. How can Muslim immigrants become part of Germany when they adhere to a religion (and culture) with a long historical position as the quintessential other to European culture and society? What place, in particular, should be assigned to Muslim organisations that provide for doctrine and ritual? As the new Islamic presence in Germany was considered a key challenge for maintaining public security and order, the Ministry of the Interior took the lead in policy development. Within the ministry, security agencies, particularly the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Verfassungsschutz) played a decisive role in generating knowledge about the newcomers and the structure and formation of Islamic politics. In this paper, I analyse the ways in which security knowledge is produced in the Ämter für Verfassungsschutz, the “Offices for the Protection of the Constitution”.1 I apply an emic approach, asking how bureaucrats in this institution perceive and categorise Islam, to show how this knowledge constitutes the foundation for various security strategies. I begin by sketching the mission and the vision of the Verfassungsschutz and exploring how ideas","PeriodicalId":395584,"journal":{"name":"The Bureaucratic Production of Difference","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127458696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frontmatter","authors":"","doi":"10.14361/9783839451045-fm","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839451045-fm","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":395584,"journal":{"name":"The Bureaucratic Production of Difference","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122271156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Keeping Numbers Low in the Name of Fairness","authors":"L. Affolter","doi":"10.14361/9783839451045-002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839451045-002","url":null,"abstract":"“I am interested in foreigners, other cultures. The basic idea is to help these people, even if we do – of course – reject many of them”, Gabriel, a caseworker in the Swiss Secretariat for Migration (SEM), once said to me (Gabriel, caseworker, interview transcript).1 The SEM is where first-instance asylum decisions are made in Switzerland. Officials working there – officials like Gabriel – make decisions about whether asylum seekers fulfil the requirements for refugee status, and whether they believe the applicants' statements are credible.2 Applicants must fulfil both preconditions before receiving asylum. Although Gabriel works in the SEM “to help people”, for him it is okay that most applicants get rejected. This has to do with his understanding of fairness, a core issue in professional decision-making. Thus, later in the conversation quoted above, he went on to say that it was the decision-makers' duty to meticulously examine the credibility of each case, because otherwise “everybody could just receive asylum and that would be unfair to those who","PeriodicalId":395584,"journal":{"name":"The Bureaucratic Production of Difference","volume":"604 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128165791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frontmatter","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9783839451045-fm","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839451045-fm","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":395584,"journal":{"name":"The Bureaucratic Production of Difference","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123910027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Office","authors":"J. Eckert","doi":"10.14361/9783839451045-001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839451045-001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":395584,"journal":{"name":"The Bureaucratic Production of Difference","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123742702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Governing the Boundaries of the Commonwealth","authors":"David Loher","doi":"10.14361/9783839451045-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839451045-005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":395584,"journal":{"name":"The Bureaucratic Production of Difference","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123681747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Asylum Procedure in Border Detention","authors":"Chowra Makaremi","doi":"10.14361/9783839451045-003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839451045-003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":395584,"journal":{"name":"The Bureaucratic Production of Difference","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134507725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Economy of Detainability","authors":"N. De Genova","doi":"10.14361/9783839451045-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839451045-007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":395584,"journal":{"name":"The Bureaucratic Production of Difference","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124092349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Functional Inconsistencies","authors":"Simon Affolter","doi":"10.14361/9783839451045-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839451045-006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":395584,"journal":{"name":"The Bureaucratic Production of Difference","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131151803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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