Ronit Lentin, Vukasin Nedeljkovic

Disavowing Asylum

Documenting Ireland's Asylum Industrial Complex

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book combines historical and geographical analysis of the direct provision asylum system with a theoretical analysis of the disavowal of the system by state and society and first-person narrative of the lived experience.

Produktdetails

• Challenging Migration Studies
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9781786612526
• ISBN-10: 1786612526
• Artikelnr.: 60020357

Autorenporträt

Ronit Lentin is a retired Associate Professor of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin, where she ran the Masters programme in Race, Ethnicity, Conflict. She published extensively on race critical theory, racism in Ireland, and Palestine and Israel. Her books include "Racism and Antiracism in Ireland" (with Robbie McVeigh 2002), "After Optimism: Ireland, Racism and Globalisation" (with Robbie McVeigh, 2006), "Race and State" (with Alana Lentin, 2006/8), "Migrant Activism and Integration from Below in Ireland" (with Elena Moreo, 2012), "Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation" (with Nahla Abdo, 2002), "Thinking Palestine" (2008), and "Traces of Racial Exception: Racializing Israeli Settler Colonialism" (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Asylum in Ireland, from disavowal to archive
2. Asylum seekers and Direct Provision: Racialization, dispersal,
deportability, NGOization
3. Disavowing Ireland's history of enforced incarceration
4. Direct provision as "slow death"
5. Who profits from Direct Provision? Ireland's Asylum Industrial
Complex
6. Asylum seekers as agents of change and resistance
7. Asylum Archive, resistance, theory and practice
8. Conclusion: Archiving silence, making Direct Provision visible