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The Necropolitical Production and Management of Forced Migration

(Hardback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

The Necropolitical Production and Management of Forced Migration

Contributors:

By (Author) Ariadna Estevez

ISBN:

9781793653291

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint:

Lexington Books

Publication Date:

4th November 2021

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

Professional and Scholarly

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Migration, immigration and emigration
Citizenship and nationality law
Refugees and political asylum

Dewey:

304.87

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

158

Dimensions:

Width 160mm, Height 228mm, Spine 17mm

Weight:

481g

Description

Using examples from the United StatesMexico border, Central America, and South America, this book argues that forced migration is not a spontaneous phenomenon, but rather a product of necropolitical strategies designed to depopulate resource rich countries or regions. Estevez merges necropolitical analysis with postcolonial migration and offers a new framework to study the set of policies, laws, institutions, and political discourses producing a profit in a legal context in which habitat devastation is legal, but mobility is a crime. Violence, deprivation of food or water, environmental contamination, and rights exclusion are some of the tactics used in extractivist capitalism. Private and state actors alike, use necropower, both its first and third world versions, to make people, living and dead, a commodity.

Reviews

Bold and insightful, this book provides a rich conceptual framework by which to study forced migration. Drawing on postcolonial scholarship and Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), Estvez examines in impressive detail the necropolitical production and management of forced migration across Mexico, Latin American and the US. She highlights the importance of analysing the colonality of asylum in relation to processes of forced depopulation and lucrative death, to make a powerful argument about the structural and legal violence that constitutes forced migrants as disposable subjects. Ambitious in scope yet sensitive to lived experiences, this is a must read for scholars of migration as well as for critical thinkers at large.

-- Vicki Squire, University of Warwick

Author Bio

Ariadna Estvez is tenured research professor of international relations at the Centre for Research on North America at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

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