Tunaboylu, SevdaRué, Alèxia2025-05-142025-05-142025https://hdl.handle.net/2445/220994In 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.5 p.application/pdfengcc-by (c) Tunaboylu, Sevda et al., 2025http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/Dret d'asilPolítica migratòriaRight of asylumMigration policyinfo:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaperinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess