Suspended lives : navigating everyday violence in the US asylum system / Bridget M. Haas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haas, Bridget M., author.

Series:

Critical Refugee Studies

Critical Refugee Studies ; v.4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political refugees--Violence against--United States.

Political refugees.

Asylum, Right of--United States.

Asylum, Right of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, CA : University of California Press, [2023]

Summary:

Suspended Lives explores the experiences of asylum seekers in the midwestern United States in vivid detail. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork among Cameroonian and other African asylum seekers, Bridget M. Haas traces the emotional and social effects of being embedded in the US asylum regime. Appealing to the United States for protection, asylum seekers are cast into a complex and protracted bureaucratic system that increasingly treats them as suspect. Haas shows how the US asylum system both serves as a potential refuge from past violence and creates new forms of suffering. She takes readers into the intimate spaces of asylum seekers' homes and communities, in addition to legal and bureaucratic settings that are often inaccessible to the public. Poignantly foregrounding the lives and voices of asylum seekers, Suspended Lives exposes the asylum system as a site of multiple, yet often hidden and normalized, forms of violence. Haas also illuminates how asylum seekers respond to these harms to actively endure the asylum process.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Acronyms

Introduction

1 Violence of In/Visibility

2 Limbo and the Violence of Waiting

3 Socioeconomic Violence and Its Ripple Effects

4 Epistemic Violence in Asylum Adjudication

5 The Aftermaths of Asylum Decisions

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520385139

0520385136

OCLC:

1350601613