The dispossessed : a story of asylum at the US-Mexican border and beyond /
The first comprehensive, in-depth book on the Trump administration's assault on asylum protections. Arnovis couldn't stay in El Salvador. If he didn't leave, a local gangster promised that his family would dress in mourning, that he would wake up with flies in his mouth. "It was...
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London ; Brooklyn, New York :
Verso,
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Table of Contents:
- FIRST ATTEMPT. 1. Bombing the Bridge of Gold ; Gang presence in Joyous Saint John ; A soccer match and an asylum claim ; Gangs as state actors ; Pressure to join one gang, threats from the other ; Peluca keeps pushing ; Pistol to the head ; Escape ; 2. Fear and the state ; Biases in asylum adjudication ; Greek heroes ; Non-refoulement ; Principle and practice ; More asylum seekers, more bordering ; The meaning of the crisis ; Blurring of economic migrants and refugees ; The doubly dispossessed ; 3. Arnovis traveling north ; Horrors and hardships ; Caught in Mexico ; Mexican immigration enforcement ; Siglo XXI ; 4. Fear, the state, migration ; The highway comes to Corral de Mulas ; Rise of the gangs ; Dangerous and do-nothing police ; Police target Arnovis ; Chris Rock and Max Weber ; Isolation and danger in Corral de Mulas ; Inability to relocate in El Salvador
- SECOND ATTEMPT. 5. Deportation ; A sad night in a sex motel ; Poverty in Corral ; Heading north again ; Bribery in the jungle ; The Beast ; Pushbacks and the deterrence ; Hiring a coyote ; "Safe third country agreements" ; Mexico's dysfunctional asylum system ; Are refugees safe in the United States? ; Arnovis arrives in Piedras [ect.] ; 6. Escape from the safe house ; Dodging Mexican marines ; Nights in the desert ; Pushing away asylum seekers at the border ; Fording the Rio Grande ; Entry fiction doctrine ; Taken into custody ; 7. The century of the refugee ; Hebraic law and asylum ; Islamic and Arabic traditions of hospitality ; Sanctuary and asylum among the early Greeks ; Sophocles and Aeschylus ; Democracy and asylum ; Sanctuary in Rome and the early Christian church ; Calvin and Luther ; European states and asylum ; Fugitive slaves as [ect.] ; 8. Requirements of proof for asylum claims ; The World Trade Center and asylum policy ; Immaterial inconsistences ; Las hieleras ; Border Patrol's lies ; Arnovis and credible fear ; Playing trilingual telephone in courts ; Scheherazade ; Arnovis deported ; 9. Twenty people displaced a minute ; Nansen passports ; Failures in 1933 ; Evian Conference and Kristallnacht ; The saga of the St. Louis ; Nineteen Eighty-Four ; The "right to have rights" ; 1951 Refugee Convention ; Anti-communism and United States asylum policy ; Refugees fleeing the United States ; 1967 Protocol and mass exodus from Southeast Asia ; Denying Central American asylum claims ; Anti-Haitian policies and the rise of Guantanamo ; Welcome to the Cubans ; War crimes and El Salvador at war ; United States extends its border south ; Australia learns from US pushbacks ; Perdition, downfall, doom, extinction, and [ect.]
- THIRD ATTEMPT. 10. Arnovis in chains ; Domestic split in Corral de Mulas ; Gang control on the peninsula ; Another threat ; Arnovis and Jose flee with their daughters ; A smuggler's cramped truck ; 11. Santos witnesses his twin's murder in Juarez ; The dungeons of US detention ; Time as a weapon ; Refugee literature ; Bona fide or bogus claims ; Climate refugees ; Arnovis and Meybelin in a southern Mexican safe house ; Border militarization ; Racist immigration enforcement ; Rise of the coyotes ; Refugee Roulette ; "Asylum to the virtuous" ; Fifty-two hours in a truck ; Death trucks ; Darlene gets sick ; "Zero tolerance" and family separations ; The family crosses the river in a raft ; Back in the hieleras ; The girls are [ect.] ; 12. Trump to eliminate courts and judges ; A caravan ; Particularistic refugees ; US meddling in El Salvador ; The Central American "laboratory" ; Rise of gangs in LA ; Failures of the Drug War ; The CIA, the state, and local police collaborating with gangs and drug smugglers ; US foreign policy in Honduras ; NBA jerseys in Honduran [ect.] ; 13. Where is Meybelin? ; "Twenty-three days of terror" ; United States backs out of refugee resettlement accords ; Narrowing grounds for asylum ; Arnovis prosecuted ; 14. Martin threatened by Acapulco cops ; Detention of asylum seekers ; "We were locked up like dogs" ; The feeling of fear ; Torturing a grandmother ; Psalms of asylum ; Assassination of Archbishop Romero ; 15. Arnovis back in Corral without Meybelin ; Contact with Meybelin ; Media sensation ; Welcome-home balloons ; My first visit to Corral ; Arnovis still on edge ; Dancing in the dirt ; Another trip north?
- CAN I LIVE? 16. Consequences of asylum denial ; Sixty bullet casings ; Chronicling death upon deportation ; Emergency evacuations ; 17. Sanctuary outside Austin ; Hilda's story ; A childhood of abuse ; Fleeing with her son ; Detention ; Hunger strike ; Making home in a church ; Growing up in a church ; 18. Lingering fear in Corral ; New threats ; The price of a bullet ; Blistered identity ; A nation's capacity to protect ; Asylum as triage ; A state's own fear ; "Freedom is a place" ; Heidegger, Arendt, Holderlin ; Changes in El Salvador ; Meybelin loves her father ; Arnovis's dream.