Bureaucracies Under Judicial Control? Relational Discretion in the Implementation of Immigration Detention in Swiss Cantons

Based on interviews with bureaucrats and judges in several Swiss cantons, this article analyzes how decide to order immigration detention the judicial review shapes their decisions. The authors argue that discretionary decision-making regarding is structured by web of relationships which decision-makers are embedded affected practices other street-level actors. varying cantonal configurations result heterogenous bureaucratic affect profiles numbers persons being detained. In particular, differences judges’ interpretation legal principles, as well expectations, strongly