Suspended Lives: Navigating Everyday Violence in the US Asylum System

Suspended Lives explores the experiences of asylum seekers in the midwestern United States in vivid detail. Drawing on long—term ethnographic fieldwork among Cameroonian and other African asylum seekers, Bridget M. Haas traces the emotional and social effects of being embedded in the US asylum regime. Appealing to the United States for protection, asylum seekers are cast into a complex and protracted bureaucratic system that increasingly treats them as suspect. Haas shows how the US asylum ...