@article{1439422,
      recid = {1439422},
      author = {Hirschler, Steven A.,},
      title = {Hostile homes : violence, harm and the marketisation of UK  asylum housing /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1439422},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79213-8},
}