Asylum for sale : profit and protest in the migration industry / edited by Siobhán McGuirk, Adrienne Pine.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McGuirk, Siobhán, editor.

Pine, Adrienne, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political Science, Social Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : PM Press, [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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Siobhán McGuirk and Adrienne Pine

1: Crossings : On Seeking Refuge from an Undeclared War / José López

The Business of Selling Life: Reflections from a Rescue Ship in the Mediterranean Sea / Alva, Uyi, and Madi

Trump and the USMCA: From Free Trade to Gassing Migrants / Garry Leech

Outsourcing, Responsibility, and Refugee Claim-Making in Australia's Offshore Detention Regime / Sara Dehm - Kidneys without Borders-Asylum without Kidneys / Nancy Scheper-Hughes

2: Waiting Games : From Paris to Lampedusa: The New Business of Migrant Detention in Europe / Louise Tassin

Detained Voices on Labor / Detained Voices

The Poetics of Prison Protest / Behrouz Boochani and Omid Tofighian

Displacement, Commodification, and Profitmaking in Nigeria / Sidonia Lucia Kula and Oreva Olakpe

A Guard's Story / Sam Wallman, Nick Olle, Pat Grant, Pat Armstrong, and Sam Bungey

3: Complex Industries/Industrial Complexes : The Military and Security Industry: Promoting Europe's Refugee Regime / Mark Akkerman

Making a Refugee Market in the Republic of Nauru / Julia Morris

The Cost of Freedom / Marzena Zukowska

Making Profits in Hostile Environments: Asylum Accommodation Markets in the UK and Ireland / John Grayson

An "Expert" View of the Asylum Industry / Adrienne Pine

4: "Nonprofit"/"Nongovernmental" : In the Best Interest of Whom? Professional Humanitarians and Selfie Samaritans in the Danish Asylum Industry / Annika Lindberg

The Marketization of Asylum Justice in the UK / Jo Wilding

Free Wireless Network Activism and the Industrial Media Infrastructures of Forced Migration / Tim Schütz and Monic Meisel

Surmounting the Hostile Environment: Reflections on Social Work Activism without Borders / Lynn King, Bridget Ng'andu, and Lauren Wroe

Neoliberalism and LGBT Asylum: A Play in Five Acts / Siobhán McGuirk

5: Aftermaths? : Border Militarization in a Warming World: Climate Adaptation for the Rich and Powerful / Todd Miller

Beds, Masks, and Prayers: Mexican Migrants, the Immigration Regime, and Investments in Social Exclusion in Canada / Paloma E. Villegas

Contesting Profit Structures: Rejected Asylum Seekers between Modern Slavery and Autonomy / Jorinde Bijl and Sarah Nimführ

Grounded: Power, Profit, and the Deportation Industrial Complex / Ruth Potts and Jo Ram

Kuja Meri? / Joël van Houdt.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781629638188

1629638188