Karlsen Lab

University of Bergen

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ERC Starting Grant · 2022

Contested Knowledges in and through Asylum Litigation

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…

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