This episode of CMSOnAir features an interview with David FitzGerald, Theodore E. Gildred Chair in US-Mexican Relations, Professor of Sociology, and Co-Director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego.

CMS’s researcher Mike Nicholson asks FitzGerald about the concept of “remote controls,” new constraints on asylum seekers, and the impact of wealthy democracies closing their doors to migrants.

FitzGerald’s book, Refuge Beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers, is now available from Oxford University Press. To keep up with FitzGerald’s work, you can follow him on Twitter, @FitzGeraldUCSD, or check out the website of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies.

FURTHER READINGDeterrence without Protection of Asylum Seekershttps://cmsny.org/martin-7-24-19/

What’s Less Patriotic Than Abandonment of the US Refugee Protection Program?https://cmsny.org/publications/kerwin071919/

Refugees Have Few Options, We Have a Lot Morehttps://cmsny.org/publications/al-muqdad-053019/

The Impact of Externalization of Migration Controls on the Rights of Asylum Seekers and Other Migrantshttps://cmsny.org/publications/jmhs-impact-of-externalization/

The End of the Deterrence Paradigm? Future Directions for Global Refugee Policyhttps://cmsny.org/publications/jmhs-sc-globalrefugee/