Hostile Homes

Violence, Harm and the Marketisation of UK Asylum Housing
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-79212-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 373 g

Reihe: Critical Criminological Perspectives

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 state’s social control aims and neoliberal imperatives of market expansion into the immigration control regime. The title borrows from former Home Secretary Theresa May’s 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 government’s 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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hirschler, Steven A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Britain’s 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.

Über Autor(innen)

Steven A. Hirschler is Lecturerin 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.