Through case studies from Australia, Europe and the US, this book explores how emotion is central to understanding the formation of immigration policy. The author looks beyond the 'negative' emotions of fear and hostility to examine the politics of compassion in immigration and asylum policy discourse.

About the Author
Ala Sirriyeh is a Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool. She works in migration and refugee studies, with a focus on the experiences of children and young people. She wrote Inhabiting Borders, Routes Home (Routledge, 2013) based on her PhD research. From 2017-2018 she held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for a research project titled Undocumented Young Immigrants, Political Activism and Citizenship in the USA.

Reviews
"Surely a must-read for scholars interested in the recent 'refugee crisis', and those who more broadly want to comprehend how compassion is used both to uphold and counter asylum and immigration policies... the first extensive study of how 'benevolence' is articulated in immigration and asylum debates in the 'minority world', making the book very topical and useful to understand ongoing events." Migration Studies, June 2019
"This lucid, useful book throws new light on how we think about migration. It deftly links theory and evidence to explain the 'compassionate refusal' used to justify exclusionary migration policies." Hannah Jones, University of Warwick



Book Information
ISBN 9781529200423
Author Ala Sirriyeh
Format Hardback
Page Count 224
Imprint Bristol University Press
Publisher Bristol University Press