Suspended Lives (eBook)

Navigating Everyday Violence in the US Asylum System

Bridget Marie Haas (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
264 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38513-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Suspended Livesexplores 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.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.4.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Critical Refugee Studies
• Reihe/Serie: Critical Refugee Studies
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Adjudication • Affirmative asylum applicant • Colonialism • criminalization • ethnography • family separation • financial insecurity • Immigration Court • Legal protection • Limbo • marginalization • Refugees • Reunification • Status • US political asylum system • Violence • waiting
• ISBN-10: 0-520-38513-6 / 0520385136
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-38513-9 / 9780520385139