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...Benjamin N. Lawrance Lawrance explores asylum-seeking as an emergent archival form to highlight how the strategies shaping asylum claiming conceal a potentially rich archive of gender-based violence. Asylum seekers today face ever greater obstacles entering western migration fortresses. Protection...

... relations that has brought immigrants to the developing Irish economy. In response to immigration the state simultaneously exerts neoliberal controls and reduces pathways to citizenship through residence while passing antiracism legislation. Today, the indigenous nomadic Travellers and asylum seekers...

... as part of the asylum process and the activism that resulted in protest of these measures. AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power/Los Angeles (ACT UP/LA), a grassroots direct-action organization, opposed this legislation throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Activists highlighted the global nature of AIDS; challenged...

... American Southwest during the Spanish colonial period, it compares the institution of church asylum with cross-tribal Indigenous sanctuary place-making and traditions of radical hospitality. As Indigenous people became refugees in their own homeland they capitalized on their knowledge of the landscape...

... revivals in Rochester brought new women into activist ranks and expanded the concerns of already active women. It was in the mid-1830s that bands of evangelical women founded the Orphan Asylum and the first anti-slavery, moral reform, and temperance associations composed entirely of women.11...

... assistance to transit migrants (those who have yet to start asylum applications or are having trouble with the process) living in the streets of Rome. Those evicted would discover that staying with Baobab would mean sleeping on the concrete outside the Tiburtina station. They would join transit...

... relationships as eligible for family class sponsored migration.7 Both queer asylum and family class migration in Canada rely upon intensive and extensive forms of doc- umentation, which, as I will argue, can be thought of not only as archives of intimacy and trauma but also as archives of what I call...

... in the United States, sanctuary churches have provided refuge to Central Americans fleeing US proxy wars in the 1980s and denied asylum in the United States, which evolved into the New Sanctuary Movement in 2007. 4 Other activists—such as Abdullah, Matthews, and Stierl—are part of the global No Borders...

... called the era of the common man, involved the transition from a mercantile and largely rural society to an industrial urban one; it coincided with the extensive growth of the asylum as a prominent institution on the American land- sca~e.~The asylum, which by the mid-nineteenth century had...

... Convention on the Status of Refugees of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and its 1967 Protocol to claim human rights and status for its members as asylum seekers. Calling itself Via Crucis Migrantes, or the Migrants’ Way of the Cross, the caravan walked from Central America...

... for detention. Subjecting these detainees to health inspections, the state refused to allow all who tested positive for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) into its territory, despite their bona fide asylum claims. While their compatriots were either returned to Haiti or given safe haven...

... advocacy organization that supports Haitian and other asylum seekers at the US–Mexico border and in detention (Guerline Jozef); the UndocuBlack Network (Aly Wane); Border Encuentro, a binational nonprofit that brings communities together across the US–Mexico border wall at Friendship Park in Tijuana...

... not. The United States denied Haitians’ asylum claims or designation as refugees and, instead, insisted that the Haitians were merely “economic” migrants, undeserving of US protection. This persisted despite consistent and compelling evidence that in Haiti, men and women who defied or critiqued...

..., such as Michel Foucault’s Madness and Civilization (1965) or David Rothman’s The Discovery of the Asylum (1971), while seminal interpretations in their own right, give no serious attention to the voices of mad people who make up the background to their studies.2 A few books devoted exclusively...

... the archive is also vividly evident in Benjamin N. Lawrance’s analysis of contemporary African asylum narratives and claims. Writing as an expert witness and legal histo- rian, he reflects on the power of mimesis as a narrative strategy, allowing asylum seekers to invoke a current threat — Boko Haram...

... in faith-based spaces. This policy backed dictators in the civil wars in Central America, causing thousands of refugees to flee for their safety. 3 The US government did not recognize them as political refugees and they were denied legal entry to the United States. The refusal of asylum seekers...

... and anthropology at the Rochester Institute of Technology. His research examines traffick- ing, citizenship, and asylum. His recent books include Amistad’s Orphans (2014), the collec- tion Adjudicating Refugee and Asylum Status (2014, edited with Galya Ruffer), Citizenship in Question (2016, edited...

...Figure 1. Floating Ladder was part of a collaborative art project by Caleb Duarte and Central American asylum seekers living at El Barretal, a refugee camp in Tijuana, Mexico. Photo by Marilyn Flores. ...

... in Late-Victorian London. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. $35.00 (cloth); $15.95 (paper). Tales of the traffic in young virgins, of women narrowly escaping confinement in asylums, of Victorian men and women trying to talk openly about sex, and finally of the legendary Jack...