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Suspended Lives - Navigating Everyday Violence in the US Asylum System (Hardcover)
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Suspended Lives - Navigating Everyday Violence in the US Asylum System (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Refugee Studies, 4
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Suspended Lives explores the experiences of asylum seekers in the
midwestern United States in vivid detail. Drawing on long-term
ethnographic fieldwork among Cameroonian and other African asylum
seekers, Bridget M. Haas traces the emotional and social effects of
being embedded in the US asylum regime. Appealing to the United
States for protection, asylum seekers are cast into a complex and
protracted bureaucratic system that increasingly treats them as
suspect. Haas shows how the US asylum system both serves as a
potential refuge from past violence and creates new forms of
suffering. She takes readers into the intimate spaces of asylum
seekers' homes and communities, in addition to legal and
bureaucratic settings that are often inaccessible to the public.
Poignantly foregrounding the lives and voices of asylum seekers,
Suspended Lives exposes the asylum system as a site of multiple,
yet often hidden and normalized, forms of violence. Haas also
illuminates how asylum seekers respond to these harms to actively
endure the asylum process.
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