The Coloniality of Asylum - Fiorenza Picozza

The Coloniality of Asylum

Mobility, Autonomy and Solidarity in the Wake of Europe’s Refugee Crisis
Buch | Softcover
220 Seiten
2022
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-5011-5 (ISBN)
37,40 inkl. MwSt
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.
Through the concepts of the ‘coloniality of asylum’ and ‘solidarity as method’, this book links the question of the state to the one of civil society; in so doing, it questions the idea of ‘autonomous politics’, showing how both refugee mobility and solidarity are intimately marked by the coloniality of asylum, in its multiple ramifications of objectification, racialisation and victimisation.

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, The Coloniality of Asylum bridges border studies with decolonial theory and the anthropology of the state, and accounts for the mutual production of ‘refugees’ and ‘Europe’. It shows how Europe politically, legally and socially produces refugees while, in turn, through their border struggles and autonomous movements, refugees produce the space of Europe.

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Hamburg in the wake of the 2015 ‘long summer of migration’, the book offers a polyphonic account, moving between the standpoints of different subjects and wrestling with questions of protection, freedom, autonomy, solidarity and subjectivity.

Fiorenza Picozza is a researcher and activist who has been involved in refugee solidarity in different European locations for about a decade. She holds a PhD in Geography from King’s College London.

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Coloniality of Asylum: ‘Race’, ‘Refugeeness’ and ‘Europeanness’

Chapter 2. Solidarity as Method: On the Intractable Coloniality of Asylum Ethnographies

Chapter 3. The Blackmail of the Crisis: Volunteering with Refugees in Transit and the Politics of ‘Civil Society’

Chapter 4. Here to Stay: Autonomous Movements Across Europe between Incorrigibility and Refugification

Chapter 5. The Battleground of Asylum: Navigation, Co-optation and Sabotage

Chapter 6. Thresholds of Asylum: ‘Refugeeness’, Subjectivity and the Resistance to the ‘Coloniality of Being’

Chapter 7. Refugees Welcome? The Production of Whiteness within Visual, Moral and Social Economies of Solidarity

Conclusion: Consuming the Pain of Refugees

References

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 229 mm
Gewicht 327 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-5381-5011-5 / 1538150115
ISBN-13 978-1-5381-5011-5 / 9781538150115
Zustand Neuware
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