Type: Mixed Paper Session
Primary Organizer: Alisa Hartsell
Start Time: 10/21/2021 10:30 AM (Eastern Time (US & Canada))
End Time: 12:10 PM
Room: Key Room (Indigo)

Description:

The Death of Asylum, Alison Mountz (2020) states “asylum itself is in crisis.” This session explores the crisis and death of asylum through the lens of legal geography. In the theme of Justice and the City in an Age of Social Division, this session engages with injustice in current asylum processes including disparities in asylum seeking, immigrant rights, policing & enforcement, and detention. The promise of asylum, the right to seek protection from a well-founded fear of persecution developed from 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. While asylum seeking has risen globally, many countries signed onto the UNHCR agreement are fortifying borders, implementing policies criminalizing immigration, and focus on deterrence during humanitarian crises.This session aims to bring together papers from a variety of perspectives and scales that can help further our understanding of injustices and disparities in asylum seeking.

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