Impoverishment and Asylum Social Policy as Slow Violence
Synopsis
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.This shift has far-reaching consequences for people seeking asylum, who have been systematically impoverished as part of the effort to strip out any possibility of an economic pull factor leading to more arrivals, but also for those administering their support system, and for civil society organisations and groups who seek to ameliorate the worst effects of the resulting asylum regimes.
This book argues that within this context asylum support policies in the UK which are meant to help and protect, in fact do serious harm to their recipients. It argues that the shift from construing asylum seekers as economically, rather than politically, motivated migrants across the West, is part of a much broader set of historical and philosophical worldviews than has previously been articulated. The book offers a rigorously researched and richly theorised analysis drawing on postcolonial and decolonial perspectives in making sense of the purposeful impoverishment by the state of a particular group of people, and why this continues to be tolerated in the fourth richest country in the world.
Book details
- Series:
- Routledge Advances in Sociology
- Author:
- Lucy Mayblin
- ISBN:
- 9781000767346
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780367823450, 9780367423100, 9780367423100
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Pages:
- N/A
- Reading age:
- Not specified
- Includes images:
- Yes
- Date of addition:
- 2020-03-27
- Usage restrictions:
- Copyright
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Copyright by:
- Lucy Mayblin. The right of Lucy Mayblin to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Social Studies, Sociology