Title: Technologies of suspicion and the ethics of obligation in political asylum /
Authors: Haas, Bridget M.; Shuman, Amy, 1951-
Year: 2019
Subjects: Political refugees Government policy Case studies.; Political refugees Legal status, laws, etc. Case studies.; Asylum, Right of Case studies.; National security Technological innovations Case studies.; Immigration enforcement Technological innovations Case studies.; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights.; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.; Asylum, Right of; Political refugees Government policy; Political refugees Legal status, laws, etc.
Abstract: "Across the globe, migration has been met with intensifying modes of criminalization and securitization, and claims for political asylum are increasingly met with suspicion. Asylum seekers have become the focus of global debates surrounding humanitarian obligations, on the one hand, and concerns surrounding national security and border control, on the other. In Technologies of Suspicion and the Ethics of Obligation in Political Asylum, contributors provide fine-tuned analyses of political asylum systems and the adjudication of asylum claims across a range of sociocultural and geopolitical contexts. The contributors to this timely volume, drawing on a variety of theoretical perspectives, offer critical insights into the processes by which tensions between humanitarianism and security are negotiated at the local level, often with negative consequences for asylum seekers. By investigating how a politics of suspicion within asylum systems is enacted in everyday practices and interactions, the authors illustrate how asylum seekers are often produced as suspicious subjects by the very systems to which they appeal for protection. Contributors: Ilil Benjamin, Carol Bohmer, Nadia El-Shaarawi, Bridget M. Haas, John Beard Haviland, Marco Jacquemet, Benjamin N. Lawrance, Rachel Lewis, Sara McKinnon, Amy Shuman, Charles Watters"--
Contents: Introduction : negotiating suspicion, obligation, and security in contemporary political asylum regimes / Bridget M. Haas and Amy Shuman -- Troubling the ethics of durable solutions in the age of suspicion : Iraq War refugees and the politics of obligation / Nadia El-Shaarawi -- Geographies of aspiration and the politics of suspicion in the context of border control / Charles Watters -- A "politics of protection" aimed at Mayan immigrants in the United States / John B. Haviland -- Asylum officers, suspicion, and the ambivalent enactment of technologies of truth / Bridget M. Haas -- Country of origin information, technologies of suspicion, and the erasure of the supernatural in African refugee claims / Benjamin N. Lawrance -- The digitalization of the asylum process (and the digitizing of evidence) / Marco Jacquemet -- Mixed migration and the humanitarian encounter : Sub-Saharan asylum seekers in Israel / Ilil Benjamin -- Transgendered asylum and gendered fears in US asylum law and politics / Sara L. McKinnon -- "And suddenly I became a lesbian!" : performing lesbian identity in the political asylum process / Rachel A. Lewis -- Political asylum narratives and the construction of suspicious subjects / Amy Shuman and Carol Bohmer -- Conclusion / Amy Shuman and Bridget M. Haas.