Podcast: Country of Origin Information in European Asylum Systems

PLATFORM WARS’ Jasper van der Kist was invited by the 'Refugee Law and Refugee Lives' podcast at the University of Bergen to discuss his ethnographic research on the production and utilization of Country of Origin Information in European asylum processes.

December 19, 2025

In the episode, Jasper discusses the research he conducted during his PhD, in which he examined the production and legitimization of so-called Country of Origin Information (COI) along the decision-making chain in asylum processes. Among other things, he talks about how and by whom COIs are produced, what role they play in the asylum procedures, how they are given meaning in the everyday work of asylum officers at the various stages of the process, how asylum seekers and their individual experiences are being marginalized as a result, and much more.

The full episode is available here.

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