Food as a Biopower Means of Control: The Use of Food in Asylum Regimes.

The article discusses the use of food to exert power over asylum seekers (biopower), and it mentions the nutritional and socio-cultural values of food, restrictions on asylum seeker entrepreneurs who establish food places, and the role of food in the lives of migrants. Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers in Israel are addressed, along with a detention center on the Israeli-Egyptian border and Israel's Deposit Law which an employer's obligation to offset a worker's wages.