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Summary:

This book offers a critique of asylum in Europe from the standpoint of autonomous border struggles, enacted both by refugees and those in solidarity with them.

Table of Contents:

• Cover
• The Coloniality of Asylum
• Series page
• The Coloniality of Asylum: Mobility, Autonomy and Solidarity in the Wake of Europe's Refugee Crisis
• Copyright
• Content
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• The Coloniality of Asylum and the Spectacle of Solidarity
• The Mutual Production of Asylum and Europe
• Plan of the Book
• Chapter 1
• The Coloniality of Asylum
• 1.1. The Coloniality of Asylum
• 1.2. The Moral Spatio-Temporalities of 'Europeanness' and 'Refugeeness'
• 1.3. Protection and Unfreedom: how Race Becomes Law
• Chapter 2
• Solidarity as Method
• 2.1. The Germ of This Book
• 2.2. Solidarity as Method and the Ethnographic Ethos

• 2.3. Hamburg's Geographies of Asylum
• 2.4. Who Are the 'Natives' of the Asylum Regime?
• 2.5. Listening, Labelling, Representing
• 2.6. The Voices That Are Louder in This Book
• Chapter 3
• The Blackmail of the Crisis
• 3.1. Where Was the State? The Politics of 'Civil Society' and the 'Exteriority' of Refugees
• 3.2. Who Stood in Solidarity with the Refugees? Volunteers' Social Composition and Attitudes towards the State
• 3.3. The Blackmail of the 'Crisis': Conflicts over the Politics of Volunteering and the 'Absence' of the State
• 3.4. Humanitarian Hierarchies and the Exceptionality of Refugees
• 3.5. Supporting the Logistics of Transit Against the State or for Its Benefit?
• Chapter 4
• 'Here to Stay'
• 4.1. Becoming Refugees: The Threefold Bind of Asylum, Labour and Illegality
• 4.2. Becoming (Un)deportable: The Spatio-Temporal Order of Asylum
• 4.3. Becoming Dublin: Northward Mobilities and Spatio-Temporal Borders
• 4.4. Becoming Numbers: Southward Mobilities and the Unsafety of Europe
• 4.5. Becoming Fragmented: the Legal Subordination and Refugification of Nonwhite 'Twofold Migrants'
• Chapter 5
• The Battleground of Asylum
• 5.1. Asylum against the State: Self-Organisation and Mutual Support
• 5.2. Social Work within and Against the State
• 5.3. Lawyers and Volunteers Navigating Bureaucracy against the State
• 5.4. Asylum within the State: Lawyers, Translators and the Subordination of Refugee Newcomers
• Chapter 6
• Thresholds of Asylum
• 6.1. Choosing to be a 'Refugee'
• 6.2. Feeling like a 'Refugee'
• 6.3. Enduring the 'Coloniality of Being'
• 6.4. Moving Out of 'Refugeeness'
• Chapter 7
• Refugees Welcome?
• 7.1. Abolitionist Genealogies of Whiteness
• 7.2. Colour blindness, Presentism and the Need for Help
• 7.3. Good Whites and Bad Refugees
• 7.4. Women* Space is Everywhere: Against Maternalism and the 'Pathos of Smile'
• 7.5. Politics as Leisure: The Political Economy of Time Disposability
• Conclusions
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• References
• Index
• About the Author

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Author/Creator:

Picozza, Fiorenza , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The coloniality of asylum: mobility, autonomy and solidarity in the wake of Europe's refugee crisis [by Picozza, F.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: The Coloniality of Asylum [by Picozza, F.] (London : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,©2021 — ISBN 9781538150092)

Related Series:

New politics of autonomy

Subjects:

Asylum, Right of — Europe

Refugees — Government policy — Europe

Boundaries — Political aspects

Asylum, Right of

Refugees — Government policy

Refugees

Boundaries

Europe

General Notes:

Description based on: Print version of record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 pages).

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

K3268.3 .P53 2021eb

ISBNs:

9781538150108 (electronic bk.)
1538150107 (electronic bk.)
9781538150092 (hbk.) [Invalid]
1538150093 (hbk.) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1232277468