Author profile: Sara Riva

Sara Riva holds a PhD from the Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies Department at the Ohio State University (USA). She is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow with the Spanish National Research Council and the University of Queensland (Australia). Sara’s research interests include Migration, Feminism, Colonialism, Punishment, Confinement and Border Abolition. She puts refugee issues in the United States in conversation with Europe and Australia and theorizes the border as a transnational sovereign assemblage.

Women for Profit – Seeking Asylum in the United States: A Neocolonial Story

Sara Riva • Jun 14 2021 • Articles

Through neoliberal processes, women who seek asylum are subject to exploitation both in their countries of origin and once they reach their destinations.

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