Asylum for sale : profit and protest in the migration industry /

Asylum for sale : profit and protest in the migration industry /

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Imprint:Oakland, CA : PM Press, 2020.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Subject:
Asylum, Right of -- Economic aspects.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13514225
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Other authors / contributors:McGuirk, Siobhán, editor.
Pine, Adrienne, editor.
ISBN:9781629638188
1629638188
9781629637822
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO; viewed September 10, 2020)
Summary:"This explosive new volume brings together a lively cast of academics, activists, journalists, artists, and people directly impacted by asylum regimes to explain how current practices of asylum align with the neoliberal moment, and to present their transformative visions for alternative systems and processes. Through essays, artworks, photographs, infographics, and illustrations, Asylum for Sale: Profit and Protest in the Migration Industry regards the global asylum regime as an industry characterized by profit-making activity: brokers who demand extortionate fees to facilitate border crossings; contractors and firms that erect walls, fences, and watchtowers while lobbying governments for bigger "security" budgets; corporations running private detention centers and "managing" deportations; private lawyers charging exorbitant fees; "expert" witnesses building their reputations in courthouses; and NGO staff establishing careers while placing asylum seekers into new regimes of monitored vulnerability. Asylum for Sale offers a fresh and wholly original perspective by challenging readers to move beyond questions of legal, moral, and humanitarian obligations that dominate popular debates regarding asylum seekers. Digging deeper, the authors focus on processes and actors often overlooked in mainstream analyses and on the trends increasingly rendering asylum available only to people with financial and cultural capital. The reader is invited to carefully probe every aspect of the asylum process from crossings to aftermaths. Exhaustive in scope, the book covers a sweeping range of national contexts providing an in-depth exploration of complex, international networks, policies, and norms that impact and implicate people seeking asylum around the world. In highlighting protest as well as profit, Asylum for Sale strikes a crucial balance of critical analyses and proposed solutions for resisting and reshaping current and emerging immigration norms"--
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half title page
  • Title page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Foreword by Seth M. Holmes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction by Siobhán McGuirk and Adrienne Pine
  • I: Crossings
  • On Seeking Refuge from an Undeclared War by José López
  • The Business of Selling Life: Reflections from a Rescue Ship in the Mediterranean Sea by Alva, Uyi, and Madi
  • Trump and the USMCA: From Free Trade to Gassing Migrants by Garry Leech
  • Outsourcing, Responsibility, and Refugee Claim-Making in Australia's Offshore Detention Regime by Sara Dehm
  • Kidneys without Borders-Asylum without Kidneys by Nancy Scheper-Hughes
  • II: Waiting Games
  • From Paris to Lampedusa: The New Business of Migrant Detention in Europe by Louise Tassin
  • Detained Voices on Labor by Detained Voices
  • The Poetics of Prison Protest by Behrouz Boochani and Omid Tofighian
  • Displacement, Commodification, and Profitmaking in Nigeria by Sidonia Lucia Kula and Oreva Olakpe
  • A Guard's Story by Sam Wallman, Nick Olle, Pat Grant, Pat Armstrong, and Sam Bungey
  • III: Complex Industries/Industrial Complexes
  • The Military and Security Industry: Promoting Europe's Refugee Regime by Mark Akkerman
  • Making a Refugee Market in the Republic of Nauru by Julia Morris
  • The Cost of Freedom by Marzena Zukowska
  • Making Profits in Hostile Environments: Asylum Accommodation Markets in the UK and Ireland by John Grayson
  • An "Expert" View of the Asylum Industry by Adrienne Pine
  • IV: "Nonprofit"/"Nongovernmental"
  • In the Best Interest of Whom? Professional Humanitarians and Selfie Samaritans in the Danish Asylum Industry by Annika Lindberg
  • The Marketization of Asylum Justice in the UK by Jo Wilding
  • Free Wireless Network Activism and the Industrial Media Infrastructures of Forced Migration by Tim Schütz and Monic Meisel
  • Surmounting the Hostile Environment: Reflections on Social Work Activism without Borders by Lynn King, Bridget Ng'andu, and Lauren Wroe
  • Neoliberalism and LGBT Asylum: A Play in Five Acts by Siobhán McGuirk
  • V: Aftermaths?
  • Border Militarization in a Warming World: Climate Adaptation for the Rich and Powerful by Todd Miller
  • Beds, Masks, and Prayers: Mexican Migrants, the Immigration Regime, and Investments in Social Exclusion in Canada by Paloma E. Villegas
  • Contesting Profit Structures: Rejected Asylum Seekers between Modern Slavery and Autonomy by Jorinde Bijl and Sarah Nimführ
  • Grounded: Power, Profit, and the Deportation Industrial Complex by Ruth Potts and Jo Ram
  • Kuja Meri? by Joël van Houdt
  • Index

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