McGuirk, Siobhan and Pine, Adrienne. 2020. Asylum for Sale: Profit and Protest in the Migration Industry. Oakland, California: PM Press. ISBN 9781629637822 [Book]

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Blurb: 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.

Item Type:	Book
Keywords:	asylum, immigration, capitalism, neoliberalism, activism
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Anthropology
Date:	November 2020
Item ID:	29457
Date Deposited:	23 Nov 2020 09:42
Last Modified:	23 Nov 2020 09:42
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/29457

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