Suspended Lives

Navigating Everyday Violence in the US Asylum System

Bridget Marie Haas (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2023
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38512-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Bridget M. Haas teaches anthropology at Case Western Reserve University.

Contents

Acknowledgments
List of Acronyms

Introduction
1. Violence of In/Visibility
2. Limbo and the Violence of Waiting
3. Socioeconomic Violence and Its Ripple Effects
4. Epistemic Violence in Asylum Adjudication
5. The Aftermaths of Asylum Decisions
Conclusion

Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.05.2023
Reihe/Serie	Critical Refugee Studies ; 4
Zusatzinfo	1 line art
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-38512-8 / 0520385128
ISBN-13	978-0-520-38512-2 / 9780520385122
Zustand	Neuware