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Disavowing Asylum: Documenting Irelands Asylum Industrial Complex

(Hardback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Disavowing Asylum: Documenting Irelands Asylum Industrial Complex

Contributors:

By (Author) Ronit Lentin
By (author) Vukasin Nedeljkovic

ISBN:

9781786612526

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint:

Rowman & Littlefield International

Publication Date:

13th July 2021

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

Professional and Scholarly

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Human geography

Dewey:

362.8709417

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

200

Dimensions:

Width 160mm, Height 228mm, Spine 19mm

Weight:

499g

Description

This book presents the for-profit Direct Provision asylum system in the Republic of Ireland describing and theorizing the remote asylum centres throughout the country as a disavowed incarceration system, operated by private companies and hidden from public view.

The book combines historical and geographical analysis of the Direct Provision system with a theoretical analysis of the disavowal of the system by state and society and with a visual autoethnography via one of the authors Asylum Archive and asylum diary, both acting as a first-person narrative of the experience of living in Direct Provision. The book argues that asylum seekers, far from being mere victims of their experiences in Direct Provision are active agents of change and resistance, and theorizes the Asylum Archive project as an archive of silenced lives that brings into public view the hidden experiences of the asylum seekers living in the Direct Provision system.

Author Bio

Ronit Lentin is emeritus sssociate professor of sociology at Trinity College Dublin.



Vukasin Nedeljkovic is a freelance researcher who has initiated the multidisciplinary project Asylum Archive.

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