Entrapping Asylum Seekers : Social, Legal and Economic Precariousness / edited by Francesco Vecchio, Alison Gerard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vecchio, Francesco, Editor.

Gerard, Alison, Editor.

Series:

Transnational Crime, Crime Control and Security, 2947-4272

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transnational crime.

Critical criminology.

Human rights.

Criminology.

Emigration and immigration.

Transnational Crime.

Critical Criminology.

Human Rights.

Crime Control and Security.

Human Migration.

Local Subjects:

Transnational Crime.

Critical Criminology.

Human Rights.

Crime Control and Security.

Human Migration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed. 2017.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Summary:

This book is an interdisciplinary attempt to understand the contemporaneous human condition of asylum seekers through analysis of their entrapment and the resultant new forms of resistance that have emerged to combat it. Based on qualitative research data, the chapters support the claim that asylum seekers are entrapped in social, legal and economic precariousness amidst the complex relationship between individual agency and social structure. By exploring the practices and lived experiences of asylum seekers and other parties involved in their migration and reception, the authors explore the structural and individual agency factors that entrap asylum seekers in precarious livelihoods and lead to marginalization and social exclusion. A bold and timely study, this edited collection will be essential reading for academics and students of criminology, sociology, anthropology, urban studies and social policy.

Contents:

Entrapping asylum seekers: introduction / Alison Gerard and Francesco Vecchio

Unmasking the cultural construction of asylum screening at the border / Olga Jubany

Beyond the border spectacle: migration across the Mediterranean Sea / Pierluigi Musaró

Seeking asylum in neoliberal Cairo: refugee protests and the securitization of Humanitarianism / Elisa Pascucci

Contesting entrapment: women asylum seekers in Hong Kong / Alison Gerard

'This Time I Am Going to Cross!': fighting entrapment processes through the Provision of Human Smuggling Services on the US-Mexico border / Gabriella E. Sanchez

Asylum seekers and strategic litigation / Frances Webber

'Hostile' UK immigration policy and asylum seekers' susceptibility to forced labour / Hannah Lewis, Louise Waite, and Stuart Hodkinson

Funding precarity: non-profit organization and refugee negotiation of Italian and European asylum policies / Michele Manocchi

Asylum seeker materiality and identity-building: shapes of socio-legal incarceration / Francesco Vecchio.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137587398

1137587393