This article proposes to understand the ‘invisible data work’ that asylum seekers must do to put together a ‘credible’ asylum application. While the intersections between asylum and work have typically been analysed in relation to access to employment and labour conditions, we attend to the work of collecting, assembling, and ordering different forms of analogue and digital data inherent to the asylum process. Building on feminist interdisciplinary debates on work and drawing on a selection of asylum appeals from Italy and the UK, we argue that seeking asylum entails extensive and continual invisible work that requires significant resources, effort, skills and time. Attending to these forms of invisible work is crucial to understanding the challenges of seeking asylum beyond the migration journey and the implications of performing ‘invisible data work’ unaided and unequipped. It also counters problematic depictions of asylum seekers as passive subjects who are ‘just waiting’ for a decision to be made. Finally, rendering the collection and assemblage of data as ‘invisible work’ rather than just ‘doings’ has political implications for understanding the resources, responsibilities and resistance to the border politics of making precarious subjects.

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收集、组装、排序：边境政治和庇护的隐形数据工作

本文建议了解寻求庇护者必须完成的“隐形数据工作”，以汇总“可信”的庇护申请。虽然庇护与工作之间的交叉点通常是根据就业机会和劳动条件来分析的，但我们致力于收集、组装和订购庇护过程固有的不同形式的模拟和数字数据。基于女权主义关于工作的跨学科辩论，并借鉴意大利和英国的一系列庇护上诉，我们认为，寻求庇护需要广泛且持续的隐形工作，需要大量的资源、努力、技能和时间。参与这些形式的隐形工作对于理解在移民旅程之外寻求庇护的挑战以及在没有帮助和无装备的情况下执行“隐形数据工作”的影响至关重要。它还反驳了将寻求庇护者视为“只是等待”做出决定的被动主体的有问题的描述。最后，将数据的收集和组合视为“无形的工作”而不仅仅是“行为”对于理解资源、责任和对制造不稳定主体的边境政治的抵抗具有政治意义。