Performing Professionalism – Emotions in Asylum Courts

Teresa S Büchsel
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While socio-legal literature widely discusses the role of emotions in courts, refugee studies have yet to embrace a perspective that goes beyond viewing emotions as dichotomous to reason and objectivity. This paper fills this gap by using a socio-legal lens to investigate the role of emotions in asylum decision-making in courts. Based on substantial ethnographic fieldwork at two distinct German administrative courts, this paper shows how judges navigate emotions ranging from empathy to frustration and the way these shape asylum proceedings. The paper argues that judges actively manage the emotional aspects of their work while complying with the cultural script of dispassion, which includes the public performance of impartiality and protective professionalism, distancing themselves from difficult decisions. It highlights how emotions in courts can reveal the complex negotiations of belonging that take place in asylum courts. Therefore, it advocates for a view on courts, particularly asylum decision-making in court, which incorporates judicial emotions.
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表现专业-情绪在庇护法庭
虽然社会法律文献广泛讨论了情绪在法庭上的作用,但难民研究尚未接受一种超越将情绪视为理性和客观性二分法的观点。本文通过使用社会法律镜头来调查情感在法院庇护决策中的作用,填补了这一空白。基于在两个不同的德国行政法院进行的大量民族志田野调查,本文展示了法官如何驾驭从同理心到沮丧的情绪,以及这些情绪如何影响庇护程序。本文认为,法官在遵守冷静的文化剧本的同时,积极管理其工作中的情感方面,其中包括公正性和保护性专业精神的公开表现,使自己远离艰难的决定。它强调了法庭上的情绪如何揭示了在庇护法庭上发生的复杂的归属谈判。因此,它提倡一种包含司法情感的法院观,尤其是法院的庇护决策。
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