ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I will present an extensive analysis of the construction of female applicants in decision-making practice. The analysis is based on the 252 cases I studied. The analysis is illustrated by five extensive descriptions of rich cases; a sixth is presented in section 5.2. I have chosen to give the applicants in these cases English names in order to resist implicit "ethnicisation". One may object that this makes the case descriptions less authentic, but that is precisely the point. I will argue that the applicant we see in the asylum procedure is a Dutch product. The use of familiar names for foreign people is intended to have an interrupting and alienating effect.
