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The Anti-Refugee Machine: Interpreting Global Migration Control

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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)


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"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

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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 teaches Anthropology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her research on Eritrea was funded by the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. She is the author of Soldiers, Martyrs, Traitors and Exiles: Political Conflict in Eritrea and Diaspora (University of Pennsylvania Press).

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 widely including journal articles Entangled Paths through Different Times: Refugees in and from the African Horn (2022) and Long-Covid Racism: Dwelling between changing visibilities and persistent ignorance (2025) and monograph Migration aus Eritrea: Wege, Stationen, informelles Handeln.

Subject: Political and Economic AnthropologyRefugee and Migration Studies


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