Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART ONE: THE BORDER

1. The Line Between Life and Death

2. Carlos Spector, Attorney-at-Law for Impossible Cases

3. Constructing a Border

PART TWO: EXILE AND ASYLUM

4. Annunciation House: The Asylum Tradition

5. Political Asylum: Sheltering Arms, but Not for Everyone

6. Giving Up Freedom to Save Your Life

7. The Business of Locking Up Migrants

PART THREE: IMPUNITY

8. Preserving Memory

9. Impunity

10. Seeking Justice from the Other Side

PART FOUR: HERE WE ARE

11. Back to Life

12. The Never-Ending Wave

13. “We don’t want you here!”

Epilogue

Notes