Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru

**__Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru__** **provides an extraordinary glimpse into the remote and difficult-to-access island of Nauru, exploring the realities of Nauru's offshore asylum arrangement and its impact on islanders, workforces, and migrant populations.** Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Nauru, Australia, and Geneva as well as a deep dive into the British Phosphate Commission archives, Julia Caroline Morris charts the island's colonial connection to phosphate transformation into a new industrial sector in asylum. She explores how this extractive industry is peopled by an ever-shifting cast of refugee lawyers, social workers, clinicians, policy makers, and academics globally and how the very structures of Nauru's colonial phosphate industry and the legacy of the era of "Phosphateers" made it easy for a new human extractive sector to take root on the island. By detailing the making and social life of Nauru's asylum system, Morris shows the institutional fabric and discourses and rhetoric that inform the governance of migration around the world. As similar practices of offshoring and outsourcing asylum have become popular worldwide, they are enabled by the mobile labor and expertise of transnational refugee industry workers who carry out the everyday operations of asylum. __Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru__ goes behind the scenes to shed light on the everyday running of the offshore asylum industry in Nauru and "what really happens" underneath the headlines. Morris illuminates how refugee rights activism and #RefugeesWelcome-style movements are caught up in the hardening of border enforcement operations worldwide, calling for freedom of movement that goes beyond adjudicating hierarchies of suffering.

Asylum and Extraction in the Republic ofNauru provides an extraordinary glimpse intothe remote and difficult-to-access island of Nauru, exploring therealities of Nauru's offshore asylum arrangement and its impact onislanders, workforces, and migrant populations. Drawing onextensive fieldwork in Nauru, Australia, and Geneva, as well as adeep dive into the British Phosphate Commission archives, JuliaCaroline Morris charts the island's colonial connection tophosphate through to a new industrial sector in asylum. Sheexplores how this extractive industry is peopled by anever-shifting cast of refugee lawyers, social workers, clinicians,policy makers, and academics globally and how the very structuresof Nauru's colonial phosphate industry and the legacy of the"phosphateer" era made it easy for a new human extractive sector totake root on the island.

By detailing the making of and social life of Nauru's asylumsystem, Morris shows the institutional fabric, discourses, andrhetoric that inform the governance of migration around the world.As similar practices of offshoring and outsourcing asylum havebecome popular worldwide, they are enabled by the mobile labor andexpertise of transnational refugee industry workers who carry outthe necessary daily operations. Asylum and Extraction in theRepublic of Nauru goes behind the scenes to shed light on theeveryday running of the offshore asylum industry in Nauru anduncover what really happens underneath the headlines. Morrisilluminates how refugee rights activism and #RefugeesWelcome-stylemovements are caught up in the hardening of border enforcementoperations worldwide, calling for freedom of movement that goesbeyond adjudicating hierarchies of suffering.

Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru provides an extraordinary glimpse into the remote and difficult-to-access island of Nauru, exploring the realities of Nauru's offshore asylum arrangement and its impact on islanders, workforces, and migrant populations. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Nauru, Australia, and Geneva, as well as a deep dive into the British Phosphate Commission archives, Julia Caroline Morris charts the island's colonial connection to phosphate through to a new industrial sector in asylum. She explores how this extractive industry is peopled by an ever-shifting cast of refugee lawyers, social workers, clinicians, policy makers, and academics globally and how the very structures of Nauru's colonial phosphate industry and the legacy of the "phosphateer" era made it easy for a new human extractive sector to take root on the island. By detailing the making of and social life of Nauru's asylum system, Morris shows the institutional fabric, discourses, and rhetoric that inform the governance of migration around the world. As similar practices of offshoring and outsourcing asylum have become popular worldwide, they are enabled by the mobile labor and expertise of transnational refugee industry workers who carry out the necessary daily operations. Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru goes behind the scenes to shed light on the everyday running of the offshore asylum industry in Nauru and uncover what really happens underneath the headlines. Morris illuminates how refugee rights activism and #RefugeesWelcome-style movements are caught up in the hardening of border enforcement operations worldwide, calling for freedom of movement that goes beyond adjudicating hierarchies of suffering. Contents Introduction 1. Building the Workingman’s Dream 2. Mineral Meets Migrant Metallurgies 3. Securing the Offshore Industry 4. Resource Frictions 5. Ekamawir Omo 6. Bitter Money Acknowledgments Notes References Index "This book focuses on the production and impacts of the phosphate and asylum industries in the Republic of Nauru."-- Provided by publisher