Asylum, it’s not a real thing anymore

Paralegal and Temporal Modalities for Excluding U.S. Asylum Seekers from Latin America and the Caribbean

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7905166
AutoresA Garni (0000-0001-8599-2448), Citlally Orozco, Lisa Melander, Lisa A Melander (0000-0002-1995-1012)
Año2025
Volumen52
Número2
Páginas146-164
Fecha de publicación2025-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLatin American Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0094582x251320084
OpenAlexW4407668975
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas29

Governments deny people’s internationally recognized rights to asylum by preventing them from arriving in territories where they may request asylum and by using case law to restrict eligibility. While research tends to focus on either deflection or restriction tactics, this paper builds on studies that examine the interaction between them. To further examine the interaction between these “bordering” practices at and beyond the physical U.S. border, we conducted two years of ethnographic research with asylum seekers in three ICE detention centers, one district of the “Migrant Protection Protocols,” and via Title 42 expulsions. We show how paralegal manipulations of time interact with spatial and legal modalities of exclusion to deflect asylum seekers from Latin America and the Caribbean in particular. The result for people who are subjected to these processes is compounded trauma inflicted through a paradoxical combination of state violence and statelessness in the United States and abroad

Cartography · Geography · Immigration · Latin Americans · Modalities · Political science · Refugee · Sociology · Anthropology · History · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Racism, and Human Rights · Migration, Refugees, and Integration