Decrypting Asylum Legal Regimes
The Politics of Mobility in the Americas
Decrypting Asylum Legal Regimes
The Politics of Mobility in the Americas
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Description
Cutting-edge legal analysis reveals how Mexico's migration and asylum regime “encrypts” rights, restricting access for forced migrants through security-driven legal and bureaucratic mechanisms.
In this rigorous study, Luisa Gabriela Morales Vega examines the legal and political structures governing migration in Mexico, demonstrating how they systematically limit access to fundamental rights for people experiencing human mobility. Focusing on the US–Mexico migration corridor, the book analyses immigration control practices, detention systems, expulsion mechanisms, and asylum procedures, showing how these are shaped by historical, racial, and colonial dynamics.
Drawing on the theory of the encryption of power, Morales Vega introduces the concept of the “Hidden People” as a key analytical category to explain how migrants and asylum seekers are produced as legally marginal subjects. Through close engagement with legal frameworks, government decisions, and policy developments, the study reveals how widely used categories such as citizenship, residency, humanitarianism, and security operate as unstable and often empty signifiers.
By bringing together legal analysis and decolonial critique, the book challenges established interpretations of migration law and exposes the deeper socio-political forces structuring contemporary migration regimes. It offers a distinctive framework for understanding how rights are mediated, restricted, and rendered inaccessible within current systems of migration governance.
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Table of Contents
Coloniality of Power
The Coloniality of Knowledge
2. The Theory of Encryption of Power, Forced Migrations and Asylum
The Theory of Encryption of Power
Forced Migrations and Mixed Movements
Migration and Asylum regimes
3. Security: Axis of Migration Management and Regime of Encryption
The Various Dimensions of State Security
International Immigration Policies
The Link Between Immigration and Security
4. The Mexican Legal Regime of Migration: Control, Expulsion and Detention
Mexican Immigration Policies
5. The Encrypting Signifiers of Migration and Asylum Regimes
The Legal Establishment of the Hidden People Comprising Forced Migrants and Asylum Seekers
Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration as a Global and Encrypting Policy
The Hidden People: Inhabitants of Migrant Camps
Immigration and Asylum Regimes Encrypting Signifiers
Conclusions. The Forced Migration and Asylum Regimes: Assessing the Possibilities of Decryption
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | May 13 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 208 |
| ISBN | 9798216563655 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Series | Decrypting Power and Coloniality: Philosophical Perspectives from and through the Global South |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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