Pm Press - Asylum For Sale - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
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.
Title: Asylum For Sale
Brand: Pm Press
Barcode: 9781629637822
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 11/1/2020
Category: Political Activism