{"product_id":"suspended-lives-navigating-everyday-violence-in-the-us-asylum-system-volume-4-hardcover","title":"Suspended Lives: Navigating Everyday Violence in the Us Asylum System Volume 4 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBridget Marie Haas\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSuspended Lives\u003c\/i\u003e explores the experiences of asylum seekers in the midwestern United States in vivid detail. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork among Cameroonian and other African asylum seekers, Bridget M. Haas traces the emotional and social effects of being embedded in the US asylum regime. Appealing to the United States for protection, asylum seekers are cast into a complex and protracted bureaucratic system that increasingly treats them as suspect. Haas shows how the US asylum system both serves as a potential refuge from past violence and creates new forms of suffering. She takes readers into the intimate spaces of asylum seekers' homes and communities, in addition to legal and bureaucratic settings that are often inaccessible to the public. Poignantly foregrounding the lives and voices of asylum seekers, \u003ci\u003eSuspended Lives\u003c\/i\u003e exposes the asylum system as a site of multiple, yet often hidden and normalized, forms of violence. Haas also illuminates how asylum seekers respond to these harms to actively endure the asylum process.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSuspended Lives\u003c\/i\u003e discusses the many forms of violence that have become endemic to the US political asylum system. Through compelling accounts of individual asylum seekers, Bridget Haas portrays the deeply human dimension of the asylum system. This innovative, insightful book belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in refugees, asylum, immigration, or trauma.⏤Amy Shuman, coauthor of \u003ci\u003ePolitical Asylum Deceptions: The Culture of Suspicion\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eSuspended\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Lives \u003c\/i\u003econtains important theoretical interventions as well as novel ethnographic material about an immigrant population that has not been extensively studied. Empathetic and accessibly written, this is an important contribution to understanding the daily lives and struggles of refugees navigating the complex--perhaps complexly broken--US asylum system.\"⏤Beatriz Reyes-Foster, author of \u003ci\u003ePsychiatric Encounters: Madness and Modernity in Yucatan, Mexico\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This groundbreaking book represents a theoretically and conceptually sophisticated contribution to ethnographic research in asylum seeking. \u003ci\u003eSuspended Lives\u003c\/i\u003e offers compelling insights into the interpenetration of everyday experiences with structural conditions and relations of power. It is likely to inform scholarship in the field for decades to come.\"⏤Charles Watters, author of \u003ci\u003eRefugee Children: Towards the Next Horizon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBridget M. Haas\u003c\/b\u003e teaches anthropology at Case Western Reserve University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 25, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52732079898931,"sku":"9780520385108","price":178.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/QVBsZkozbk1jeERNR1pHM1IxWWdwUT09.webp?v=1763877676","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/suspended-lives-navigating-everyday-violence-in-the-us-asylum-system-volume-4-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}