The Coloniality of Asylum : Mobility, Autonomy and Solidarity in the Wake of Europe's Refugee Crisis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Picozza, Fiorenza.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Series:

New politics of autonomy

New Politics of Autonomy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asylum, Right of--Europe.

Asylum, Right of.

Boundaries.

Refugees--Government policy.

Europe.

Refugees--Government policy--Europe.

Refugees.

Boundaries--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 pages).

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Place of Publication:

London : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2021.

System Details:

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Contents:

Cover

The Coloniality of Asylum

Series page

The Coloniality of Asylum: Mobility, Autonomy and Solidarity in the Wake of Europe's Refugee Crisis

Copyright

Content

Acknowledgements

Introduction

The Coloniality of Asylum and the Spectacle of Solidarity

The Mutual Production of Asylum and Europe

Plan of the Book

Chapter 1

1.1. The Coloniality of Asylum

1.2. The Moral Spatio-Temporalities of 'Europeanness' and 'Refugeeness'

1.3. Protection and Unfreedom: how Race Becomes Law

Chapter 2

Solidarity as Method

2.1. The Germ of This Book

2.2. Solidarity as Method and the Ethnographic Ethos

2.3. Hamburg's Geographies of Asylum

2.4. Who Are the 'Natives' of the Asylum Regime?

2.5. Listening, Labelling, Representing

2.6. The Voices That Are Louder in This Book

Chapter 3

The Blackmail of the Crisis

3.1. Where Was the State? The Politics of 'Civil Society' and the 'Exteriority' of Refugees

3.2. Who Stood in Solidarity with the Refugees? Volunteers' Social Composition and Attitudes towards the State

3.3. The Blackmail of the 'Crisis': Conflicts over the Politics of Volunteering and the 'Absence' of the State

3.4. Humanitarian Hierarchies and the Exceptionality of Refugees

3.5. Supporting the Logistics of Transit Against the State or for Its Benefit?

Chapter 4

'Here to Stay'

4.1. Becoming Refugees: The Threefold Bind of Asylum, Labour and Illegality

4.2. Becoming (Un)deportable: The Spatio-Temporal Order of Asylum

4.3. Becoming Dublin: Northward Mobilities and Spatio-Temporal Borders

4.4. Becoming Numbers: Southward Mobilities and the Unsafety of Europe

4.5. Becoming Fragmented: the Legal Subordination and Refugification of Nonwhite 'Twofold Migrants'

Chapter 5

The Battleground of Asylum

5.1. Asylum against the State: Self-Organisation and Mutual Support

5.2. Social Work within and Against the State

5.3. Lawyers and Volunteers Navigating Bureaucracy against the State

5.4. Asylum within the State: Lawyers, Translators and the Subordination of Refugee Newcomers

Chapter 6

Thresholds of Asylum

6.1. Choosing to be a 'Refugee'

6.2. Feeling like a 'Refugee'

6.3. Enduring the 'Coloniality of Being'

6.4. Moving Out of 'Refugeeness'

Chapter 7

Refugees Welcome?

7.1. Abolitionist Genealogies of Whiteness

7.2. Colour blindness, Presentism and the Need for Help

7.3. Good Whites and Bad Refugees

7.4. Women* Space is Everywhere: Against Maternalism and the 'Pathos of Smile'

7.5. Politics as Leisure: The Political Economy of Time Disposability

Conclusions

References

Index

About the Author

Notes:

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

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Print version: Picozza, Fiorenza The Coloniality of Asylum

ISBN:

1538150107

9781538150108

Publisher Number:

40030450778

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