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The Death of Asylum - Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago (Hardcover)
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The Death of Asylum - Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago (Hardcover)
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Investigating the global system of detention centers that imprison
asylum seekers and conceal persistent human rights violations
Remote 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. In The
Death of Asylum, 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. Mountz
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, The Death of Asylum 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.
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