The death of asylum : hidden geographies of the enforcement archipelago /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mountz, Alison (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]
Subjects:	Refugees > Government policy > Western countries. Detention of persons > Moral and ethical aspects. Asylum, Right of.

Table of Contents:

pt. I Physical Death: State Mobilities
1. Externalizing Asylum: A Genealogy
2. The Border Becomes the Island
pt. II Ontological Death: Shrinking Spaces
3. The Island within the Archipelago
4. Remote Detention: Proliferating Patterns of Isolation and Confinement
pt. III Political Death: Hidden Geographies
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.