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Volume 43
Dislocations
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The Anti-Refugee Machine
Interpreting Global Migration Control
Edited by Tricia Redeker Hepner and Magnus Treiber
302 pages, 16 illus., index, bibliog.
ISBN 978-1-83695-460-6 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (February 2027)
Reviews
"Rich with ethnographically grounded, human stories, the book offers inspiration for collective action to dismantle and discard the machinery of dehumanization. " — Alissa Waterston, University of New York
Description
The Anti-Refugee Machine is a frame for interpretation and analysis to grasp the apparent coincidence of often deliberate entanglements, pragmatic complicities, and unexpected forms of agency or resistance in the sphere of global migration. This book addresses how interventions to control migration and regulate mobility worsen the conditions of displacement, exacerbate capitalist exploitation, and further undermine the political and legal basis for recognition and rights. To this end, the study gathers comparative and translocal case studies from the Global South-North to critically analyse contemporary migration through a wide range of empirical, ethnographic cases that share patterned histories, similarities and relationships.
Tricia Redeker Hepner is Professor of Anthropology/Social Justice Human Rights at Arizona State University. Her research interests are in Eritrea, Eritrean diasporas, and Northern Uganda focus on migration and displacement, transnationalism, human rights, transitional justice, militarism, and conflict/peace. She is author or editor of five books, including Soldiers, Martyrs, Traitors and Exiles: Political Conflict in Eritrea and the Diaspora (2009), and dozens of journal articles and book chapters. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the Fulbright Scholars Program.
Magnus Treiber is Professor of Anthropology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at LMU Munich. His research interests are in migration and (im)mobility in and from the Global South, on conflict, political culture, and the broader context of EU-Africa relations with a particular focus on the Horn of Africa. He has published several articles and the monograph Migration aus Eritrea: Wege, Stationen, informelles Handeln (Reimer Verlag, 2017).



