{"product_id":"the-death-of-asylum-hidden-geographies-of-the-enforcement-archipelago-hardback-9780816697106","title":"The Death of Asylum; Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago (Hardback) 9780816697106","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Death of Asylum\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlison Mountz (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816697106\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 4 August 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages, 28\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 3.8 cm, 0.578 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this clear and compelling account, Alison Mountz draws on a range of conceptual tools and original research in island detention sites around the world to map the death of asylum. While much of the news is bad, the final chapters suggest ways forward, reminding us of the possibility and impact of resistance. This is urgent and necessary reading for everyone concerned with contemporary politics and practices of migration control.\"-Mary Bosworth, University of Oxford\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A brilliant account of the recent evolution of the asylum system at a global level, \u003ci\u003eThe Death of Asylum\u003c\/i\u003e is informed by a single cohesive current of groundbreaking theoretical analysis. One of the most important and urgent books about forced migration ever written.\"-Michael Collyer, University of Sussex\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A critical contribution to various debates on how geography can be used by state actors to protect their specific and rivalrous interests.\"-\u003ci\u003eLSE Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In its rich blend of empirical data, historical and contemporary detail, and insightful analysis, this is an essential book which deserves to become a classic of migration studies.\"-\u003ci\u003eRace \u0026amp; Class\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInvestigating the global system of detention centers that imprison asylum seekers and conceal persistent human rights violations\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRemote detention centers confine tens of thousands of refugees, asylum seekers, and undocumented immigrants around the world, operating in a legal gray area that hides terrible human rights abuses from the international community. Built to temporarily house eight hundred migrants in transit, the immigrant “reception center” on the Italian island of Lampedusa has held thousands of North African refugees under inhumane conditions for weeks on end. Australia’s use of Christmas Island as a detention center for asylum seekers has enabled successive governments to imprison migrants from Asia and Africa, including the Sudanese human rights activist Abdul Aziz Muhamat, held there for five years. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Death of Asylum\u003c\/i\u003e, Alison Mountz traces the global chain of remote sites used by states of the Global North to confine migrants fleeing violence and poverty, using cruel measures that, if unchecked, will lead to the death of asylum as an ethical ideal. Through unprecedented access to offshore detention centers and immigrant-processing facilities, Mountz illustrates how authorities in the United States, the European Union, and Australia have created a new and shadowy geopolitical formation allowing them to externalize their borders to distant islands where harsh treatment and deadly force deprive migrants of basic human rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMountz details how states use the geographic inaccessibility of places like Christmas Island, almost a thousand miles off the Australian mainland, to isolate asylum seekers far from the scrutiny of humanitarian NGOs, human rights groups, journalists, and their own citizens. By focusing on borderlands and spaces of transit between regions, \u003ci\u003eThe Death of Asylum\u003c\/i\u003e shows how remote detention centers effectively curtail the basic human right to seek asylum, forcing refugees to take more dangerous risks to escape war, famine, and oppression.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAsylum: An Obituary\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePreface: On Death\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Mapping Death in the Enforcement Archipelago\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcronyms\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI. State Mobilities, Physical Death\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Externalizing Asylum: A Genealogy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. The Border Becomes the Island\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eII. Shrinking Spaces, Ontological Death\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. The Island within the Archipelago\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. Remote Detention: Proliferating Patterns of Isolation and Confinement\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIII. Hidden Geographies, Political Death\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. Mobilizing Islands to Restrict Asylum Onshore in Canada (or the Death of Asylum, Even in Canada)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6.The Struggle: Countering Death with the Life of Activism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConclusions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570086048024,"sku":"9780816697106","price":68.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-death-of-asylum-hidden-geographies-of-the-enforcement-archipelago-hardback-9780816697106","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}