Lucy Mayblin

Impoverishment and Asylum (eBook, PDF)

Social Policy as Slow Violence

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Impoverishment and Asylum argues that a shift has taken place in recent decades towards construing asylum as primarily a political and/or humanitarian phenomenon, to construing it as primarily an economic phenomenon, and that this shift has had led to the purposeful impoverishment, by the state, of people seeking asylum in the UK.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000766769
• Artikelnr.: 58323385

Autorenporträt

Lucy Mayblin is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sheffield. She is the author of numerous publications in the field of refugee and migration studies, including the book Asylum After Empire: Colonial Legacies in the Politics of Asylum Seeking (2017), which won the Philip Abrams Memorial Prize from the British Sociological Association.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Economic Rights and Seeking Asylum
3. Historicising and Theorising Impoverishment and Asylum
4. Producing Slow Violence: Imagining Asylum as Economic Migration
5. Ameliorating Slow Violence: Civil Society as Gap Filler
6. Slow Violence: Everyday Life on Asylum Support
7. Conclusion: Impoverishment and Asylum.