- Description
Description
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 facilitate border crossings for a fee; 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; and NGO staff establishing careers while placing asylum seekers into new regimes of monitored vulnerability.
Asylum for Sale challenges 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. Probing every aspect of the asylum process from crossings to aftermaths, the book provides an in-depth exploration of complex, international networks, policies, and norms that impact people seeking asylum around the world. In highlighting protest as well as profit, Asylum for Sale presents both critical analyses and proposed solutions for resisting and reshaping current and emerging immigration norms.
Author: Siobhán McGuirk
Publisher: PM Press
Published: 11/01/2020
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781629637822
ISBN10: 1629637823
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Emigration & Immigration
- Political Science | Political Process | Political Advocacy
About the Author
Siobhán McGuirk is an anthropologist, journalist, curator, and filmmaker. Adrienne Pine is a critical medical anthropologist and assistant professor at the American University. Seth Holmes is a cultural and medical anthropologist, physician, and faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley.
