Asylum for Sale
Profit and Protest in the Migration Industry
A crucial, critical look at the increased for-profit forces in the international migration industry.
Through essays, artworks, photographs, infographics, and illustrations, Asylum for Sale offers a fresh and wholly original perspective by challenging readers to move beyond questions of legal, moral, and humanitarian obligations that dominate popular debates regarding asylum seekers. Digging deeper, the authors focus on processes and actors often overlooked in mainstream analyses and on the trends increasingly rendering asylum available only to people with financial and cultural capital.
'As long as there are borders and money to be made off the backs of migrants seeking freedom via the state, we must continue to expose the profit-makers and share our stories of resistance. Asylum for Sale does exactly this. It reminds us that our people will never be truly free under capitalism—and that we must not only challenge the capitalist state but destroy it and open borders for all. It is an urgent, inspiring, and necessary volume.' —J amila Hammami, founder of the Queer Detainee Empowerment Project
Siobhán McGuirk is an anthropologist, journalist, curator, and filmmaker. Adrienne Pine is a critical medical anthropologist and assistant professor at the American University. Seth Holmes is a cultural and medical anthropologist, physician, and faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley.
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