Asylum for Sale: Profit and Protest in the Migration Industry

EPISODE: Asylum for Sale: Profit and
Protest in the Migration Industry


GUEST: Adrienne Pine, Author and Medical
Anthropologist. For the past 17 years, she has worked in US
federal asylum courts as a country conditions expert for Honduran
asylum seekers in more than 100 asylum cases.


BACKGROUND:


On the heels of last week’s North America Trilateral Summit, from
which not much changed within the migratory system, today’s
episode will focus on migration as a for-profit industry which
has turned migrating humans into commodities.


Our guest Adrienne Pine is co-editor of the book Asylum for
Sale: Profit and Protest in the Migration Industry published
by PM Press in November 2020. Here is brief description:


Through essays, artworks, photographs, infographics, and
illustrations, Asylum for Sale: Profit and Protest in the
Migration Industry regards the global asylum regime as an
industry characterized by profit-making activity: brokers who
facilitate border crossings for a fee; contractors and firms that
erect walls, fences, and watchtowers while lobbying governments
for bigger “security” budgets; corporations running private
detention centers and “managing” deportations; private lawyers
charging exorbitant fees; “expert” witnesses; and NGO staff
establishing careers while placing asylum seekers into new
regimes of monitored vulnerability. Humanity is not for
sale, and no one is illegal.


FOLLOW OUR GUEST:


Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drpine


Twitter: https://twitter.com/adriennepine


ADDITIONAL LINKS:


Asylum for Sale: Profit and Protest in the Migration
Industry


Open Letter to US Ambassador: Stop the Assault on Honduran’s
Human Rights


Social Struggle in Neoliberal Central America


Climate Change, Displacement and the Border Industrial Complex





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