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Record Nr.

UNINA9910504300703321

Titolo

Technologies of suspicion and the ethics of obligation in political asylum / / edited by Bridget M. Haas and Amy Shuman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

0-8214-4667-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 285 pages)

Collana

Series in human security

Classificazione

POL035010SOC002000

Disciplina

323.631

Soggetti

Political refugees - Government policy

Political refugees - Legal status, laws, etc

Asylum, Right of

National security - Technological innovations

Immigration enforcement - Technological innovations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : negotiating suspicion, obligation, and security in contemporary political asylum regimes / Bridget M. Haas and Amy Shuman -- Troubling the ethics of durable solutions in the age of suspicion : Iraq War refugees and the politics of obligation / Nadia El-Shaarawi -- Geographies of aspiration and the politics of suspicion in the context of border control / Charles Watters -- A "politics of protection" aimed at Mayan immigrants in the United States / John B. Haviland -- Asylum officers, suspicion, and the ambivalent enactment of technologies of truth / Bridget M. Haas -- Country of origin information, technologies of suspicion, and the erasure of the supernatural in African refugee claims / Benjamin N. Lawrance -- The digitalization of the asylum process (and the digitizing of evidence) / Marco Jacquemet -- Mixed migration and the humanitarian encounter : Sub-Saharan asylum seekers in Israel / Ilil Benjamin -- Transgendered asylum and gendered fears in US asylum law and politics / Sara L. McKinnon -- "And suddenly I became a lesbian!" : performing lesbian identity in the political asylum process / Rachel A. Lewis -- Political asylum narratives and the construction of suspicious subjects / Amy



Shuman and Carol Bohmer  -- Conclusion / Amy Shuman and Bridget M. Haas.

Sommario/riassunto

Across the globe, migration has been met with intensifying modes of criminalization and securitization, and claims for political asylum are increasingly met with suspicion. Asylum seekers have become the focus of global debates surrounding humanitarian obligations, on the one hand, and concerns surrounding national security and border control, on the other. In Technologies of Suspicion and the Ethics of Obligation in Political Asylum, contributors provide fine-tuned analyses of political asylum systems and the adjudication of asylum claims across a range of sociocultural and geopolitical contexts. The contributors to this timely volume, drawing on a variety of theoretical perspectives, offer critical insights into the processes by which tensions between humanitarianism and security are negotiated at the local level, often with negative consequences for asylum seekers. By investigating how a politics of suspicion within asylum systems is enacted in everyday practices and interactions, the authors illustrate how asylum seekers are often produced as suspicious subjects by the very systems to which they appeal for protection. Contributors: Ilil Benjamin, Carol Bohmer, Nadia El-Shaarawi, Bridget M. Haas, John Beard Haviland, Marco Jacquemet, Benjamin N. Lawrance, Rachel Lewis, Sara McKinnon, Amy Shuman, Charles Watters