Necropolitical Production and Management of Forced Migration

Ariadna Estévez is tenured research professor of international relations at the Centre for Research on North America at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Bold and insightful, this book provides a rich conceptual framework by which to study forced migration. Drawing on postcolonial scholarship and Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), Estévez examines in impressive detail the necropolitical production and management of forced migration across Mexico, Latin American and the US. She highlights the importance of analysing the colonality of asylum in relation to processes of forced depopulation and lucrative death, to make a powerful argument about the structural and legal violence that constitutes forced migrants as disposable subjects. Ambitious in scope yet sensitive to lived experiences, this is a must read for scholars of migration as well as for critical thinkers at large.

• Chapter 1. Forced Migration as a Process of Necropolitical Production and ManagementChapter 2. Producing Forced MigrationChapter 3. From the Asylum Seeker to the Forced MigrantChapter 4. Managing Forced MigrationConclusion: A Theorization of Forced Migration in the Necropolitical Era (Plus COVID-19)