Hostile homes : violence, harm and the marketisation of UK asylum housing / Steven A. Hirschler.
Hirschler, Steven A., author.
2021
HV640.4.G7 H57 2021
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Title Hostile homes : violence, harm and the marketisation of UK asylum housing / Steven A. Hirschler.
Author Hirschler, Steven A., author.
ISBN 9783030792138 (electronic bk.)
3030792137 (electronic bk.)
9783030792121
3030792129
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79213-8
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-79213-8 doi
Call Number HV640.4.G7 H57 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 325.41
Summary This book explores the ways in which the state and private security firms contribute to the direct and structural harm of asylum seekers through policies and practices that result in states of perpetual destitution, exclusion, and neglect. By synthesising historic and contemporary public policy, criminological and sociological perspectives, political philosophy, and the direct experiential accounts of asylum seekers living within dispersed accommodation, this text exposes the complex and co-dependent relationship between the states social control aims and neoliberal imperatives of market expansion into the immigration control regime. The title borrows from former Home Secretary Theresa Mays pronouncement that the UK government aimed to foster a hostile environment in its response to illegal immigration. While the Home Office later attempted to rebrand its hostile environment policy as a compliant environment, this book illustrates how aggressive approaches toward the management of asylum-seeking populations has effectively extended the hostile environment to those legally present within the UK. Through an examination of the expanded privatisation of dispersed asylum housing and the UK governments reliance on contracts with private security firms like G4S and Serco, this book explores the lived realities of hostile environments as asylum seekers accounts reveal the human costs of marketised asylum accommodation programmes. Steven A. Hirschler is Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology at York St John University, UK. His research interests include the privatisation of UK asylum housing and the relationship between law, social inequality and social control practices. Steven has previously published on topics ranging from the 2011 UK riots to structural violence in video games. His teaching covers themes including criminological theory, victimology, asylum and immigration, and state violence.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 8, 2021).
Series Critical criminological perspectives.
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1. Introduction
2. Britains Legacy of Inhospitality and Violence Towards Immigrants
3. From Crimmigration to Governmentality: Theoretical Perspectives on the Management and Marketisation of Immigration Control
4. The Asylum Marketmarket: Deportation, Detention and the Privatisation of Dispersed Accommodation
5. Hostile Environments: Life Within Privatised Dispersed Housing
6. The Role of Third Sector Organisations and Concluding Remarks.

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