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Surviving the Sanctuary City
- Asylum-Seeking Work in Nepali New York
Engelsk
Bogcover for Surviving the Sanctuary City af Tina Shrestha, 9780295751528
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
242
ISBN-13:
9780295751528
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0295751525
Udg. Dato:
9 maj 2023
Størrelse i cm:
22,9 x 15,2
Oplagsdato:
9 maj 2023
Forfatter(e):

Surviving the Sanctuary City

- Asylum-Seeking Work in Nepali New York
Engelsk
Paperback 2023
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On the production of migrant labor and suffering through asylum enforcementOver the past several decades, the vibrant, multiethnic borough of Queens has seen growth in the community of Nepali migrants, many of whom are navigating the challenging bureaucratic process of asylum legalization. Surviving the Sanctuary City follows them through the institutional spaces of asylum offices, law firms, and human rights agencies to document the labor of seeking asylum. As an interpreter and a volunteer at a grassroots community center, anthropologist Tina Shrestha has witnessed how migrants must perform a particular kind of suffering that is legible to immigration judges and asylum officers. She demonstrates the lived contradictions asylum seekers face while producing their "suffering testimonials" and traces their attempts to overcome these contradictions through the Nepali notions of kaagaz banaune (making paper) and dukkha (suffering). Surviving the Sanctuary City asks what everyday survival among migrants and asylum seekers can tell us about the cultural logic of suffering within the confines of US borders. Through rich ethnographic detail and careful nuanced narratives, it puts the lives and perspectives of the Nepali migrant community at the center of the story. In so doing, Shrestha offers a fundamental rethinking of asylum seeking as a form of precarious labor and immigration enforcement in a rapidly changing US society.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
242
ISBN-13:
9780295751528
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0295751525
Udg. Dato:
9 maj 2023
Størrelse i cm:
22,9 x 15,2
Oplagsdato:
9 maj 2023
Forfatter(e):
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