Suspended Lives

Suspended Lives
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 261
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ISBN-10 : 9780520385139
ISBN-13 : 0520385136
Rating : 4/5 (136 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Suspended Lives by : Bridget Marie Haas

Download or read book Suspended Lives written by Bridget Marie Haas and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suspended Lives explores the experiences of asylum seekers in the midwestern United States in vivid detail. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork among Cameroonian and other African asylum seekers, Bridget M. Haas traces the emotional and social effects of being embedded in the US asylum regime. Appealing to the United States for protection, asylum seekers are cast into a complex and protracted bureaucratic system that increasingly treats them as suspect. Haas shows how the US asylum system both serves as a potential refuge from past violence and creates new forms of suffering. She takes readers into the intimate spaces of asylum seekers’ homes and communities, in addition to legal and bureaucratic settings that are often inaccessible to the public. Poignantly foregrounding the lives and voices of asylum seekers, Suspended Lives exposes the asylum system as a site of multiple, yet often hidden and normalized, forms of violence. Haas also illuminates how asylum seekers respond to these harms to actively endure the asylum process.


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