Offshore: The Rise and Fall of Asylum (Nonfiction), Chapel Hill, NC
Offshore: The Rise and Fall of Asylum foretells the unraveling of the global asylum system and return to the colonial practice of offshoring unwanted populations.
“My book explains the fragility of the contemporary asylum system, why nations are abandoning their international obligations, and warns against the return of offshore asylums.”
Stephanie DeGooyer is a Canadian writer and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She writes about immigration, migration, and human rights from comparative and historical perspectives for venues such as The Guardian, The Nation, Boston Review, Dissent, Lapham’s Quarterly, and Los Angeles Review of Books. She is author of Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization and co-author of The Right to Have Rights. DeGooyer is a past recipient of a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship and an ACLS Burkhardt fellowship, and has held a visiting professorship at Harvard University.
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