Outsourcing asylum reception Street-level organizations and the privatization of state action in Switzerland

By approaching outsourcing through an ethnographic lens,we focus on the policies that enable public authorities to deal with the many uncertainties of refugee reception. We investigate how cantonal (subnational) governments in Switzerland remodel these uncertainties by implementing the policy of reception through private intermediaries, namely actors, instruments, and rationalities from the private sphere. Codebook along DDI standard in pdf and xml formats.