Technologies of suspicion and the ethics of obligation in political asylum

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 surr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Haas, Bridget M., editor (editor), Shuman, Amy, 1951- editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press [2019]
Colección:Series in human security.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.