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Symbolic despotism as hypocrisy, desire and violence: The Ironies of Humanitarianism in Spain’s Asylum System Tunaboylu, Sevda Rué, Alèxia Dret d'asil Política migratòria Right of asylum Migration policy In an era when humanitarian credentials often serve as a moral badge, the Spanish asylum system reveals a paradox: those tasked by providing care can become unwitting agents of subtler form of tyranny. Beneath the veneer of altruism, the front-line social workers everyday interactions with asylum seekers -often operating within overstretched bureaucraciesexemplify what we conceptualize as symbolic despotism, where the desire for control is entrenched in the rhetoric of virtue. 2025-05-14T08:21:18Z 2025-05-14T08:21:18Z 2025 info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://hdl.handle.net/2445/220994 eng Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15175105 Working paper from the MORE Project funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe Programme (Grant agreement ID: 101094107) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15175105 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/HE/101094107/EU//MORE cc-by (c) Tunaboylu, Sevda et al., 2025 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess 5 p. application/pdf application/pdf Documents de treball / Informes (Antropologia Social)