Adrienne Pine is a critical medical anthropologist whose work has explored the embodiment of structural violence and imperialism in Honduras, cross-cultural approaches to revolutionary nursing, and neoliberal fascism. She is assistant professor at the American University and author of Working Hard, Drinking Hard: On Violence and Survival in Honduras.
Asylum for Sale: Profit and Protest in the Migration Industry
SKU: 9781629637822
Editors: Siobhán McGuirk & Adrienne Pine • Foreword: Seth M. Holmes
Publisher: PM Press/Kairos
ISBN: 9781629637822
Published: 9/1/2020
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Page count: 320
Subjects: Immigration/Activism
Praise
“As the frontiers of disaster capitalism expand, the same systems
that drive migration are finding ever-more harrowing ways to criminalize
and exploit the displaced. This book is part of how we fight back:
connecting the extraordinary stories and insights of people studying,
personally navigating, and creatively resisting the global asylum
industry. An unparalleled resource.”
—Naomi Klein, author of On Fire: The Burning Case for the Green New Deal
“As long as there are borders and money to be made off the backs of
migrants seeking freedom via the state, we must continue to expose the
profit-makers and share our stories of resistance. Asylum for Sale does
exactly this. It reminds us that our people will never be truly free
under capitalism—and that we must not only challenge the capitalist
state but destroy it and open borders for all. It is an urgent,
inspiring, and necessary volume.”
—Jamila Hammami, founder of the Queer Detainee Empowerment Project
“A very important book. With a potent mix of theoretical rigor,
empirical detail and vivid human witness, it helps to move the debate
about asylum seekers beyond suffering and compassion to rights and
resistance. In the process, it exposes the nature of the industry
growing around asylum application systems; an industry of those
demanding extortionate payments to overcome border fences, those
erecting the fences, those detaining asylum seekers while they wait, the
lawyers, the NGO—all with a self-interest in treating asylum seekers as
voiceless victims without agency or capacity, pitted against citizens.
This book conveys the possibilities of global citizenship, involving
active solidarity with those who are crossing borders whether through
choice or as a refusal of oppression. It is a vital resource for the
struggle for global human rights—a struggle often led by those who are
denied them.”
—Hilary Wainwright, author of A New Politics from the Left
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Reviews
- ‘Asylum for Sale’ — A Review in Red Pepper Magazine
- ‘Asylum for Sale’ — A Review in The Journal of Refugee Studies
Interviews
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- ‘Asylum for Sale’ — A Review in Red Pepper Magazine
- ‘Asylum for Sale’ — A Review in The Journal of Refugee Studies
- Adrienne Pine Interviewed on Community Watch and Comment
- ‘Asylum for Sale’ — A Review in Antipode
- “You Pay to Die” — New Anthology ‘Asylum for Sale’ Assesses the Global Anti-Immigration Regime
- Reform to Revolution: Challenging narratives of asylum and migration
- Siobhán McGuirk and Adrienne Pine of Asylum for Sale on Raising Voices 2020
- My Grueling Search for Asylum From an Undeclared War
- ICE’s Bail Bonds and the Migrant Detention Industry
- How ICE’s Bail Bond Scheme Lets Corporations Profit Off Migrants
- Siobhán McGuirk and Adrienne Pine of Asylum for Sale on Clearing the Fog
- Asylum for Sale: Profit and Protest in the Migration Industry— A Review
- Asylum for Sale: Profit and Protest in the Migration Industry— Introduction