Abstract State institutions and their acts of indifference, valorization, and violence operate through relationships, emotions, legal framings, and people. Engaging feminist geographic interventions, in this article we center state employees and their quotidian, affective relationships to asylum-seekers and the asylum process. We show how these actors embody state migration control through their daily practices. And we highlight the insights of former employees undertaking reflexive feminist research into their past working life. Drawing on the memories of one such “bureaucrat-ethnographer” (Valdivia), and our shared feminist engagement together, we outline three key insights for research on state migration practice. First, that the training state employees undergo aims to develop objective, neutral, and emotion-free decision-making, yet it relies on highly affective and biased state assumptions about asylum-seekers and their motivations. Second, while this training fosters simplified understandings of the causes and impacts of violence, a feminist geographic lens makes visible its complexly power-laden machinations. Last, we assert that state employees face distinct emotional pressures as they deal with devastation: the state's, their own, and that of asylum claimants. Valuing the insights of bureaucrats who become, or are at once, undertaking critical research disrupts intellectual divisions and hierarchies and complicates our understanding of the migration control practices of the state.

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好孩子、帮派成员、庇护的得失：官僚民族志学者的毁灭性反思

摘要 国家机构及其冷漠、价值化和暴力行为通过关系、情感、法律框架和人来运作。参与女权主义地理干预，在本文中，我们将国家雇员及其日常、与寻求庇护者和庇护程序的情感关系置于中心。我们展示了这些行为者如何通过他们的日常实践来体现国家移民控制。我们强调了前雇员对他们过去的工作生活进行反思性女权主义研究的见解。借鉴这样一位“官僚民族志学家”（瓦尔迪维亚）的记忆，以及我们共同的女权主义参与，我们概述了国家移民实践研究的三个关键见解。首先，国家雇员接受的培训旨在制定客观、中立和无情绪的决策，然而，它依赖于对寻求庇护者及其动机的高度情感和偏见的国家假设。其次，虽然这种培训促进了对暴力原因和影响的简化理解，但女权主义的地理视角使其复杂的充满权力的阴谋变得可见。最后，我们断言，政府雇员在处理灾难时面临着不同的情绪压力：国家的、他们自己的以及庇护申请者的。重视成为或正在从事批判性研究的官僚的见解会破坏知识分子的分裂和等级制度，并使我们对国家移民控制实践的理解复杂化。虽然这种培训促进了对暴力的原因和影响的简化理解，但女权主义的地理视角使其复杂的充满权力的阴谋变得清晰可见。最后，我们断言，政府雇员在处理灾难时面临着不同的情绪压力：国家的、他们自己的以及庇护申请者的。重视成为或正在从事批判性研究的官僚的见解会破坏知识分子的分歧和等级制度，并使我们对国家移民控制实践的理解复杂化。虽然这种培训促进了对暴力的原因和影响的简化理解，但女权主义的地理视角使其复杂的充满权力的阴谋变得清晰可见。最后，我们断言，政府雇员在处理灾难时面临着不同的情绪压力：国家的、他们自己的以及庇护申请者的。重视成为或正在从事批判性研究的官僚的见解会破坏知识分子的分裂和等级制度，并使我们对国家移民控制实践的理解复杂化。