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Asylum For Sale, Profit And Protest In The Migration Industry

On the heels of last week’s North America Trilateral Summit, from which not much changed within the migratory system, today’s episode will focus on migration as a for-profit industry which has turned migrating humans into commodities.

Our guest Adrienne Pine is co-editor of the book Asylum for Sale:  Profit and Protest in the Migration Industry published by PM Press in November 2020.  Here is brief description:

Through essays, artworks, photographs, infographics, and illustrations, Asylum for Sale: Profit and Protest in the Migration Industry regards the global asylum regime as an industry characterized by profit-making activity: brokers who facilitate border crossings for a fee; contractors and firms that erect walls, fences, and watchtowers while lobbying governments for bigger “security” budgets; corporations running private detention centers and “managing” deportations; private lawyers charging exorbitant fees; “expert” witnesses; and NGO staff establishing careers while placing asylum seekers into new regimes of monitored vulnerability.  Humanity is not for sale, and no one is illegal.

Guest: Adrienne Pine, Author and Medical Anthropologist.  For the past 17 years, she has worked in US federal asylum courts as a country conditions expert for Honduran asylum seekers in more than 100 asylum cases.

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/drpine

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/adriennepine/

Twitter:  https://twitter.com/adriennepine

Additional links:

Asylum for Sale:  Profit and Protest in the Migration Industry

https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1097

Open Letter to US Ambassador:  Stop the Assault on Honduran’s Human Rights

https://popularresistance.org/stop-the-assault-on-hondurans-rights/

Social Struggle in Neoliberal Central America

http://quotha.net/readings/Pine_Intro_LAP_2022.pdf

Climate Change, Displacement and the Border Industrial Complex

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/climate-change-displacement-and-the-border/id1585510799?i=1000539339879

WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean is a Popular Resistance broadcast in partnership with Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team, CODEPINK, Common Frontiers, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, Friends of Latin America, InterReligious Task Force on Central America, Massachusetts Peace Action and Task Force on the Americas.

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