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This book provides unique insight into the economics of migrant integration and the role played by institutions in this process. With a focus on informal institutions, integration is reframed as a complex interplay between migrant characteristics, host society institutions, and the cultural distances that separate them. An institutional economics perspective is offered to highlight the importance of cultural distance on integration outcomes and show how policy interventions can address integration challenges. Broader issues, such as generational change, gender, socio-economic class, and economic decision-making, are also covered.

This book presents a new framework for understanding the economics of migrant integration that acknowledges the complex and multifaceted nature of this process. It will be relevant to students, researchers, and policymakers interested in the economics of migration, institutional economics, and economic integration.

In Caste War Now and Never scholar S. B. West considers Yucatan's nineteenth-century Caste War, the longest and most violent Indigenous uprising of the Western Hemisphere, to argue that it actually never occurred.

Instead, West writes that the violent events grouped under the "Caste War" label must be understood through alternative frameworks that resist the emergent logics of race war and include related regulatory matrices like gender and land. Through this lens, the Caste War emerges as a discursive construct rooted in an anti-Indigenous archive that served the political interests of a frustrated regional elite during the rise of liberalism and nationhood. West argues that Caste War discourse unfolds as a technology that mobilized and legitimized genocidal actions against racialized rebels and inspired assimilation into hegemonic political and social structures.

In the second half of the book, West looks at the Caste War to engage its contemporary polysemic nature through close readings of Yucatec Maya texts, stories, and other forms of knowledge production. These sources reframe the Caste War as an important part of a framework of resistance that defies colonial time and reclaims narrative control of its events.

Caste War Now and Never captures how Maya communities understand the conflict as ongoing and demonstrates that although the Caste War never occurred as such, it continues to endure presently.

This work offers a groundbreaking account of how Chicana/o activists have engaged in sustained efforts to reclaim Indigenous identity through political struggle, cultural expression, and transnational solidarity.

Author Jose Luis Serrano Najera takes an in-depth look at the history of Chicana/o indigeneity, starting with the Chicana/o Movement of the 1960s and 1970s and through twenty-first century transnational activism and solidarity movements. Serrano Najera reveals how claims to indigeneity were rooted in reciprocal relationships with Indigenous communities and driven by a shared commitment to decolonization. Through chapters on visual and performing arts, ceremony, education, and grassroots organizing, this book challenges reductive narratives of cultural appropriation and instead foregrounds the complex and historically grounded nature of Chicana/o indigeneity.

Drawing on extensive archival research, Serrano Najera demonstrates how Chicana/o indigeneity has contributed to broader Indigenous rights movements, including efforts that culminated in the 2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. This work highlights the intercontinental dimensions of Chicana/o activism and offers a vital source for scholars and students in Chicana/o studies, Indigenous studies, ethnic studies, history, and political science. Confronting Colonial Legacies is a compelling call to rethink the politics of identity, sovereignty, and solidarity across the Americas.

This edited book presents a collection of critical, situated case studies and narratives from UK-based global majority scholar-practitioners. Via lived experience narratives, autoethnography and institutionally embedded case studies, the authors reflect on their own marginalised positions or challenges in higher education, offering theory-informed, practice-based and institutionally grounded perspectives from voices situated within the structures they critique. The book will be of interest to higher education scholars, leaders and practitioners looking to understand and implement equitable practices in their teaching, learning and assessment.

Examines how young adult second-generation Igbo Americans construct their ethnic and transnational identities in a multicultural society.

Drawing on interviews, cultural narratives, and thematic analysis, this book foregrounds the voices of SGI individuals as they navigate intergenerational tensions, cultural expectations, code-switching, gender roles, and identity formation. It explores identity clashes between Nigerian-born (Igbo) parents and their U.S.-raised children, revealing generational divergences and emergent commonalities.

Uchenna Onuzulike develops an Ethnic Communication Theory (ECT) to show how ethnic identity shapes communication styles within diasporic contexts. He unpacks theories of ethnicity, transnationalism, and emotional belonging and discusses the future of the Igbo language and cultural continuity.

This book contributes to anthropological understandings of African diasporic identity, cultural transmission, and the dynamic interplay between tradition and modernity in immigrant communities.

This book is the first of its kind to discover the first Korean immigrant in Australia and systematically analyse causes of Korean youth migration to Australia since the late 19th century. It offers a comprehensive history of 150 years' people-to-people relations,long before the establishment of official bilateral relations between Australia and South Korea in 1961. It does so by categorically analysing politico-economic factors of youth migration from the seven pillars of human security perspective. Each chapter begins with an individual story of youth migration to Australia from 1876 until today. They include a shearer and miner in Gol Gol, an international student in Melbourne, a former mascot boy for Australian soldiers, and holiday makers in Warrnambool. The volume provides stimulating content for researchers in youth labour migration history, Asian/Australian Studies and people-centric international relations.

Making Freedom Work tells the stories of five free women of color in antebellum New Orleans. The lives of Eulalie Mandeville, Henriette Delille, Marie Couvent, Cecille Bonille, and Marie Dolores Laveaux reveal the economic, legal, and cultural strategies free Black women used to move through a racially stratified, patriarchal slave society. Janet Morrison argues that free women of color could play a crucial role in the city's economic, religious, and communal life, even as they navigated and contested the restraints placed upon them by their race and gender. Foregrounding the voices of these women and their families, Morrison recovers stories that have long been marginalized in New Orleans history.

During a period of profound transformation in New Orleans-including French and Spanish colonial legacies, imposed American racial hierarchies after the Louisiana Purchase, and increased mobility within the Atlantic world-these five women found numerous ways to exercise their agency in a world that was not designed for them. They owned businesses, accumulated property, pursued litigation, engaged in philanthropy, and provided religious leadership, all while building durable networks of care, education, and spirituality. Avoiding the dangers of outright rebellion, the women employed strategies of gendered resistance-refusal, adaptation, collaboration-that often proved very successful, carving out space for survival in ways that confounded societal expectations of who they could be and what they could accomplish.

Morrison draws on a rich trove of archival sources such as censuses, city directories, notarial records, wills, successions, and court cases. Recognizing that these records were produced within white-controlled bureaucratic systems, Making Freedom Work attends closely to both their evidentiary value and their silences. It also confronts the complexities of slaveholding by free people of color, interpreting it as part of a broader struggle for security, status, and distance from enslavement, while emphasizing the uneven and contingent relationships between enslavers and the enslaved.

Making Freedom Work reintroduces these women-so often dismissed and devalued in their own time-as central historical actors, highlighting their influence as entrepreneurs, community builders, educators, and mothers of the next generation.

Dr Shereen Daniels' The Anti-Racist Organization Workbook: Dismantling Systemic Racism in the Workplace sets out a clear way of understanding how systemic racism operates, why well-intended efforts don't work, and what it means to address it seriously, in practice.

This workbook picks up from that point and moves into precise application.

It does not revisit the theory or introduce new language. Instead, it takes the principles set out in the book and applies them directly to your context, and the specific ways these issues show up in your organization.

Structured around the Four-Factor RACE Model (TM), it moves you through a deliberate process that enables you to:

• recognise how the problem shows up, so you move beyond general awareness
• analyse how it is produced and explained, so you can see how current practices, decisions and explanations perpetuate the problem
• commit to a small number of actions, so activity shifts from transactional effort to clear, transformative change with defined ownership
• examine the conditions required for those actions to lead to meaningful and sustained change, irrespective of leadership transitions, periods of pressure, and changing external conditions

The focus is not on statements of intent, zero tolerance approaches, commitments, or diversity, equity and inclusion activity, but on the structural conditions that influence how decisions are made, what is tolerated, what is challenged, what is avoided, and what patterns become visible when you know where to look and what to look for.

Applied consistently, this establishes a shared method for interrogating how work actually happens in practice, making it genuinely possible to move beyond repeated, transactional activity that addresses the symptoms, and towards transformative action and accountability that addresses the underlying root causes.

You already know there is a problem.
You consistently see the impact.

This workbook gives you a structured way to examine what is happening, why it is happening, and what it would take within your organization to change it.

This bold and timely anthology interrogates the British monarchy through the lens of race, gender, and postcolonial critique. The contributors of ten original essays use Meghan Markle's public life and identity as a nexus for understanding the enduring legacies of empire, white supremacy, and institutional exclusion.

Each chapter blends academic analysis with the authors' own lived experiences and identities, creating a deeply engaging and multifaceted narrative. Essays cover media representation, mental health, motherhood, and the politics of belonging.

Written in an accessible and engaging style, this volume speaks to readers interested in the intersections of monarchy, race, feminism, and celebrity culture. Through its interdisciplinary approach and critical insight, these essays reveal how one woman's experience within the royal family brings into focus broader social and historical processes of racial identity making and colonial power. This is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the cultural and political significance of Meghan Markle's story-and what it tells us about the world we live in.

Contributors
Lucca Ramone Carlson
Duchess Harris
Marissa Kessenich
Jasmine Mitchell
Sarah Olutola
Portia Owusu
Theri Pickens
Amelia Ryan
Julie Schwietert Collazo
Lily Talmont
Ariane Tulloch
Elwood Watson
Stephanie L. Williams
Sharon D. Wright Austin

Examines the origins and development of US Supreme Court policymaking in the area of race between 1801 and 2024.

Supreme Court Policymaking and Race presents a comprehensive and systematic account of the exercise of power by the US Supreme Court in deciding racial policy conflicts beginning with the Marshall Court and ending with the Roberts Court. Author Barbara L. Graham draws upon three related analytic frameworks to evaluate the extent to which the Court's decisions have protected the constitutional and statutory rights of people of color: institutional racial orders, partisan regimes, and jurisprudential regimes. Based on an empirical analysis of the outcomes in 441 race cases decided over fourteen chief justice tenures, Graham provides strong evidence for the claim that with the exception of a fifty-six-year period (1930 until 1986), the Supreme Court has acted as a foe, not a friend, to the rights of people of color. The findings show that when egalitarian political coalitions are in control at the national level, the Court is more likely to further their racial policy goals to protect the legal rights of people of color.

How Asian, Black, and Latino Americans form and resist political coalitions

Despite sharing similar experiences with racial discrimination and underrepresentation, Asian, Black, and Latino Americans have distinct and nuanced political identities, interests, and goals. In Asian American Political Coalitions, Fan Lu closely explores these communities of color, providing insight into their complex - and promising - political relationships, at a time when common ground is needed more than ever before.

Drawing on post-election and racial identity surveys, as well as case and character studies of activists like Grace Lee Boggs, Yuri Kochiyama, Richard Aoki, and Saket Soni, Lu highlights conflict and coalition-building among Asian American, Black, and Latino communities. She provides a framework for thinking through how these groups can mobilize together, instead of separately, to challenge our country's racial hierarchy.

Lu also provides a fresh lens on key historical and contemporary political events, including Black American responses to Japanese internment, and Asian American perceptions of the Black Lives Matter movement. Asian American Political Coalitions captures both the conflict and common ground among Asian, Black, and Latino Americans, and how these communities must build strong political coalitions for a better future.

Combining global history methods with insights from migration studies, this book discusses refugee integration and challenges the view of medical migration as a "brain drain" of foreign-trained professionals that benefits only the receiving society.

This volume explores the reception of Polish refugee doctors and medical students within the broader context of increasingly restrictive immigration policies in Britain. While many British physicians in the 1930s and 1940s opposed the recognition of foreign medical qualifications, the admission of persecuted physicians from the mainland was advocated on humanitarian grounds by many prominent academics and clinicians who also saw in the arrival of scientifically trained Europeans an opportunity to modernise British medicine. This book examines the changing attitudes towards Polish medical refugees in Britain and adopts Paul Weindling's "total population approach", which takes into account not only well-integrated high achievers but also those who, for various reasons, were not able to resume successful professional careers in different countries of post-war settlement.

Polish Refugee Doctors in Britain will be invaluable to researchers and post-graduate students interested in the history of medicine, migration studies and World War II. It will also be of interest to medical practitioners and Polish communities in Britain and North America, particularly members of the Polish Medical Association in Great Britain.

Anti-Racist Criminology is the first book to reckon with issues of race, racism, and anti-racism in the field, both at the individual level and at the institutional level within the university and the criminal justice system writ large. The authors provide an overview and historical understanding of the field's engagement with racist practices, starting with the slave codes and how that connects to the abuses of "stop and frisk." Given the influence that criminological reporting, statistics, and modeling can have on public debates about crime, the authors stress the field's important role in shaping these debates.

The book addresses three central questions the authors call the "3 Ws" of anti-racist criminology: why it is important that criminologists take up the goal of anti-racism; what anti-racist principles should criminologists aim to incorporate into their work; and who should take up what roles in the endeavor.

The authors explore how these questions apply to research, teaching, and public engagement, and provide "how-tos" for academics interested in anti-racist work. They also offer readers resources to draw upon as they refine their anti-racist ideas and practices. The book closes with a discussion of how anti-racist criminology enhances our understanding of crime, punishment, and harm. Ultimately, Anti-Racist Criminology empowers readers to reimagine how they design research projects, teach, and interact with communities as they participate in a broader movement for social justice and equity.

An essential guide to understanding how citizen lawmaking reshapes state immigration policy

Since 2010, state legislatures have enacted 1,644 statutes and resolutions regarding immigration, averaging about 329 laws each year. Nevertheless, the most controversial bills, the ones we remember and talk about, usually have some involvement with the direct democracy process: initiatives, propositions, and referendums designed by everyday citizens with little to no inside knowledge of politics. From driver's licenses and in-state tuition, to English-only education and access to social services, citizens are fundamentally shaping state immigration policy.

In Direct Democracy Rules, Andrea Silva reveals how the frontlines of U.S. immigration policy have shifted from Congress to the states. While federal authority over immigration is well established, decades of legislative stalemate have created a vacuum that states, and citizens themselves, have rushed to fill. At the heart of Silva's analysis is the powerful role of direct democracy mechanisms in allowing activists, advocacy groups, and political strategists to bypass legislatures entirely, advancing sweeping policies without compromise. In this system, a single vote at the state level can reshape the lives of millions and influence the national conversation on immigration.

Accessible, timely, and rigorously researched, Direct Democracy Rules ultimately frames these citizen-led battles over state policy as the new terrain of twenty-first century immigration politics.

In this hard-hitting book, the Lower Ninth Ward - ground zero for Hurricane Katrina - becomes a microcosm of what happens when white actors venture into black spaces for humanitarian aid.

Through vivid vignettes, Harvey exposes how blacks are often hindered in their efforts to rebuild their neighborhoods by seemingly progressive ideas and color-blind urban narratives.

Addressing the failure of disaster and environmental studies to see black communities as agents, the book demonstrates what critical disaster studies can offer for understandings of race, the environment and diversity.

This is a key contribution to debates on race, including the limitations of 'white allies' in places like Ferguson, Missouri and in the Black Lives Matter Movement.

Exposes the racial hierarchies in how human eggs are marketed and sold

Conceiving Asian Babies offers a compelling and timely exploration of race, identity, reproduction, and capitalism within the industry of human egg donation. Far from being a purely medical or personal matter, egg donation serves as a powerful lens for understanding how race-based hierarchies and racial capitalism operate within one of our most intimate life processes: creating a family.

Daisy Deomampo examines how racial capitalism fundamentally shapes the market for human eggs. By focusing on the ways the egg donation industry constructs race and identity, Deomampo shows how the demand for "Asian eggs" as a commodity reinforces biogenetic understandings of race. By exploring the overt and subtle ways the egg donor market reifies racial identities, the book illuminates the profound and often troubling links between racial capitalism and reproductive projects.

Centering the experiences of women enmeshed in the industry, the book displays how the egg donation industry reinforces racial hierarchies and shapes notions of family and identity for Asian American communities. Offering a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of how race becomes a source of capital, benefit, and risk in the global reproductive market, Conceiving Asian Babies illustrates the links between reproductive practices and capitalist motivations.

With a New Preface

A renowned expert on genocide argues that there is a real risk of violent atrocities happening in the United States

If many people were shocked by Donald Trump's 2016 election, many more were stunned when, months later, white supremacists took to the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting "Blood and Soil" and "Jews will not replace us!" Like Trump, the Charlottesville marchers were dismissed as aberrations-crazed extremists who did not represent the real US. This book makes the case that, rather than being exceptional, such white power extremism and the violent atrocities linked to it are a part of American history. And, alarmingly, they remain a very real threat to the US today.

Alexander Hinton is an award-winning author on the topic of genocide in Cambodia who served as an expert witness at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. In It Can Happen Here, he explains how murky politics, structural racism, the promotion of American exceptionalism, and a belief that the US has achieved a color-blind society have diverted attention from the deep roots of white supremacist violence in the US's brutal past. Drawing on his years of research and teaching on mass violence, Hinton details the warning signs of impending genocide and atrocity crimes, the tools used by ideologues to fan the flames of hate, the origins of the far-right extremist ideas of white genocide and replacement, and the shocking ways in which "us" versus "them" violence is supported by structural racism.

Now featuring a substantive updated preface discussing new dynamics related to the second Trump Administration, It Can Happen Here offers an essential new assessment of the contemporary dangers of democratic backsliding, political violence, and white power extremism in the United States. While revealing the threat of authoritarianism and atrocity crimes that loom over the country, Hinton offers actions we can take to prevent it from happening, illuminating a hopeful path forward for a nation in crisis.

The complexities and contradictions of the fertility industry through a reproductive justice lens.

With the proliferation of assisted reproductive technologies, the fertility industry-from in vitro fertilization to egg freezing and sperm donation-is booming. But these practices raise concerns about potential dangers and the social, economic, and racial inequalities they reinforce.

In Assisted Reproductive Justice, Camisha Russell and Kimberly Mutcherson neither indict nor validate the fertility industry. Instead, they examine its complexities and contradictions, untangling the threads of inequality and opportunity woven into its complex global networks.

Using reproductive justice theory as a critical lens, the book conducts a broad, interdisciplinary analysis of the history, social and legal policies, and ethics surrounding assisted reproduction. The authors use compelling case studies to illuminate issues of who gets access and why and how technology is used. More importantly, they explain how these issues can and should guide law and policymaking toward a more just fertility industry.

This book critically examines how states have leveraged the 2018 UN Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees to advance their geopolitical and strategic interests. Through a detailed analysis, it explores the emerging norm of state responsibility for managing migration while exposing the gaps, contradictions, and silences surrounding key issues such as non-refoulement, internal displacement, and climate migration. More than five years after the adoption of the Global Compacts, the authors provide a thought-provoking reflection on the assumptions, logics, and rhetoric underpinning these agreements and their implementation by states and international organizations.

This book is an essential resource for students, scholars, policymakers, and practitioners in the fields of migration studies, international relations, and human rights as well as those seeking to understand the complex interplay between migration diplomacy and global governance.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Geopolitics.

This book explores the policymaking processes that led to Japan's modern immigration regime, including the rejection of formal immigration policy and its wider implications.

Taking a historical approach, the book identifies the "1990 system"-namely, the reforms Japan's policymakers enacted in and around 1990-as the crucial antecedent to understanding the overall continuity in the country's immigration policy trajectory. Through an actor-focused analysis, this book dissects how and why Japan adopted its seemingly contradictory immigration policy-one that simultaneously accommodates and distances itself from an ever-growing pool of foreign laborers.

Contextualizing the current status quo of immigration in Japan and using rigid historical analysis to anticipate future developments, Japan's Modern Immigration Regime will appeal to policymakers, as well as students and scholars of Japanese politics, labor migration studies, and comparative public policy studies.

In The Attention Gap in College Sports, Joshua Woods delves deeply into data on social media activity among college teams and college athletes and critically examines the ways attention-and attempts to gain it-are reconfiguring power and profit in college sports.

Since a landmark ruling in collegiate athletics granted student athletes the right to profit from their name, image and likeness (NIL), thousands have pursued endorsement deals and business ventures. Important shifts in the time since have accelerated the rise of what this book refers to as an "attention economy," wherein the value placed on athletic performance and success has moved perceptibly online and toward public visibility and influence. The chapters in this book seek explanations for the uneven distribution of NIL opportunities and how these are driven, in part, by gender and race. This book also considers the broader ways in which these opportunities are reshaping college sports, fan engagement and athlete well-being. This book's analysis theorizes the relationships between attention capital and other forms of capital, building a sociological perspective on attention, why it matters in the field of college sports and its far-reaching implications in other fields and across society.

Grounded in its command of social media data and its discerning view, The Attention Gap in College Sports is a valuable look at consequential issues happening within college sports. Its important discoveries about social media use in this competitive landscape contribute meaningfully to conversations about sport and society, sports media, and sports business and management.

Ghosts of Bandung makes the major new argument that the fates of the Black and Palestinian revolutions were bound together through the rise and fall of a larger Third World political project. Drawing on English and Arabic archives, Derek A. Ide shows how Afro-Arab solidarities shaped and were shaped by geopolitics and grand strategy. Through biographical vignettes of forgotten figures and underexplored groups, Ghosts of Bandung interweaves the histories of movement dynamics and those of contending states in the global Cold War. This story binds the United States and the Middle East-Detroit and Damascus, Oakland and Algiers-while spanning the globe. From the Sino-Soviet split to the Beijing-Jakarta Axis, this global retelling of Black Power and the Palestinian Revolution engages China, Cuba, Ghana, Indonesia, Jordan, and others. At the heart of this broader project is the hitherto untold story of CONEFO, Indonesian President Sukarno's attempt to construct an alternative United Nations-like organization in Jakarta. Centering on 1965 and the collapse of CONEFO, Ide links the fates of Black Power and the Palestinian Revolution to the fall of Third Worldism and the "Bandung Spirit."

Displaced Persons and the Reshaping of American Immigration after World War II traces the journey of U.S. policy toward displaced persons (DPs) in post-war Europe, examining how America transformed from a nation resistant to accepting refugees to one that ultimately created a groundbreaking resettlement program.

Despite initial public apathy and political resistance, America eventually welcomed roughly 400,000 refugees through a nationwide program, reopening the gates of U.S. immigration that had been largely shuttered since the 1920s. This book meticulously examines the factors that drove this remarkable shift: the persistent advocacy of humanitarian champions, the recognition of DPs' potential contributions as workers and community members, and crucially, President Harry Truman's leadership and commitment to human dignity. Through an exploration of legislative battles, implementation challenges, and varying state and local responses, the narrative reveals how America's refugee policy was shaped by competing interests and perspectives. The author provides a balanced understanding of how public policy evolves through denial, delay, and eventual action. It is an instructive story of the makings, workings, and effects of American public policy and one that provides lessons for the advances and reversals of U.S. efforts on behalf of refugees in more recent years.

Essential reading for students of American history, immigration policy, and humanitarian affairs, this book offers valuable insights into the historical precedents of today's refugee debates and the complex interplay between American ideals and practices.

White moderates have been a hidden obstacle to black-white equality in the United States for over two centuries. This book offers the first philosophical critique of their role in impeding racial progress and perpetuating black-white inequality.

Taking his cue from Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail, the author defines white moderates as those who embrace the need for progress while opposing immediate action due to fears of social disorder. By acting on these commitments, they have contributed to the persistence of both moral and material inequality. The goal of this book is to diagnose and critique the white moderates' philosophical position. It argues that white moderates have crafted unreasonable compromises in response to legitimate calls for reform. In doing so, they support social closure: practices of hoarding and exploitation that sustain black-white inequality. The book then turns to the moderates' own case for incrementalism, reconstructing it as a four-premise argument: radical change provokes catastrophic violence, is otherwise unpredictable, cannot secure durable consensus, whereas incremental gains justify their short-term costs. The books alleges this case is mistaken on both historical and moral grounds. It rests on an unduly narrow conception of radicalism; a more accurate conception reveals that truth-telling, institution-building, and norm-contestation have all won lasting progress. Moderates reason from a false baseline that ignores the ongoing violence of an unjust status quo; they treat delay as neutral when it actively entrenches closure; they overstate the durability of their own brittle compromises; and they wrongly require individuals to forfeit their lifetime to a deferred collective good. Thus, amid deep-seated social closure, moderation is ineffective and not morally compelling. In these respects, white moderates are a significant impediment to equality.

The White Moderate: Why Racial Equality Demands Radicalism will appeal to researchers and students working in ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy of race, critical race theory, and African American politics.

Between 2014 and 2022, asylum seekers on mainland Greece had to initiate claims by calling the government on Skype, yet their calls were rarely answered. Written in Athens alongside asylum applicants as they called and called without reply, this book uncovers an eight-year human rights abuse that has never been documented. Stephen Damianos exposes how a mundane telecommunications platform became a powerful instrument of exclusion and erasure, immersing readers in Kafkaesque abandonment. Advancing the concept of "digital pushback," he demonstrates how governments increasingly use unspectacular tools to generate spectacularly violent realities with little to no accountability. Asylum Is Unavailable provides a vivid portrait of human suffering and an urgent warning about embracing technology at the expense of humanity.