Description
Book Synopsis"Alison Mountz traces the global chain of remote detention centers 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"--
Trade Review"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
"A brilliant account of the recent evolution of the asylum system at a global level, The Death of Asylum 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
"A critical contribution to various debates on how geography can be used by state actors to protect their specific and rivalrous interests."—LSE Review of Books
"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."—Race & Class
Table of ContentsContents
Asylum: An Obituary
Preface: On Death
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Mapping Death in the Enforcement Archipelago
Acronyms
I. State Mobilities, Physical Death
1. Externalizing Asylum: A Genealogy
2. The Border Becomes the Island
II. Shrinking Spaces, Ontological Death
3. The Island within the Archipelago
4. Remote Detention: Proliferating Patterns of Isolation and Confinement
III. Hidden Geographies, Political Death
5. Mobilizing Islands to Restrict Asylum Onshore in Canada (or the Death of Asylum, Even in Canada)
6.The Struggle: Countering Death with the Life of Activism
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Index
