Suspended Lives: Navigating Everyday Violence in the Us Asylum System Volume 4 Haas Bridget Marie

Suspended Lives vividly explores the experiences of asylum seekers in the midwestern United States. Haas traces the emotional and social effects of being embedded in the US asylum regime. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork among Cameroonian and other African asylum seekers, Bridget M.

Haas shows how the US asylum system both serves as a potential refuge from past violence and creates new forms of suffering. Appealing to the United States for protection, asylum seekers are cast into a complex and protracted bureaucratic system that increasingly treats them as suspect. 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 lived experiences and voices of asylum seekers, Suspended Lives exposes the asylum system as a