Asylum, it’s not a real thing anymore

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

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7905166
AutoresA Garni (0000-0001-8599-2448), Citlally Orozco, Lisa Melander, Lisa A Melander (0000-0002-1995-1012)
Ano2025
Volume52
Fascículo2
Páginas146-164
Data de publicação2025-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLatin American Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0094582x251320084
OpenAlexW4407668975
IdiomaEN
Referências 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