By Community Watch and CommentWednesday, January 6th, 2021 Adrienne Pine is a critical medical anthropologist whose work has explored the embodiment…
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‘Asylum for Sale’ — A Review in Antipode
By Amelia Frank-Vitale Antipode December 2020 Siobhán McGuirk and Adrienne Pine (eds), Asylum for Sale: Profit and Protest in the…
“You Pay to Die” — New Anthology ‘Asylum for Sale’ Assesses the Global Anti-Immigration Regime
By Belén Fernández El Faro Friday, 27 de November de 2020 In 2016, Uyi, a Nigerian artist, attempted to leave…
Reform to Revolution: Challenging narratives of asylum and migration
Asylum for Sale is a searing indictment of profit-making in the asylum industry. Harry Browse talks to the book’s co-editor,…
Siobhán McGuirk on how money is made in the global asylum industry
By Mandatory Redistribution Party November 2020 Jack interviews Siobhán McGuirk about the how money is made in the global asylum…
Storytelling and Climate Change: Imagining Solutions Beyond Documentary or Dystopia
By Marzena Zukowska & Siobhan McGuirk OKRE September 11th, 2020 “Look over there behind me, that’s a tornado. Yes, a…
Siobhán McGuirk and Adrienne Pine of Asylum for Sale on Raising Voices 2020
Academics and activists discuss profit-making in asylum and migration journeys worldwide. A podcast recorded for the American Anthropological Association’s #RaisingOurVoices2020.…
My Grueling Search for Asylum From an Undeclared War
A member of the Honduran resistance movement tells his story. By José López In These Times November 16, 2020 This…
ICE’s Bail Bonds and the Migrant Detention Industry
Zukowska grew up undocumented in the US, an experience that politicized her. Today, her writing and organizing centers on immigrant…
How ICE’s Bail Bond Scheme Lets Corporations Profit Off Migrants
By Marzena Zukowska New York Review of Books October 27th, 2020 The detention-industrial complex has ever more inventive ways of…