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Impoverishment and Asylum: Social Policy as Slow Violence

Mayblin, Lucy·2019·Routledge eBooks
DOI 10.4324/9780367823450
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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.

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Authors
Mayblin, L.
Corresponding author
Mayblin, Lucy
ORCID
Mayblin, Lucy
Venue
Routledge eBooks
Publisher
Routledge
Published
2019-11-27
DOI
10.4324/9780367823450
OpenAlex
W4251205655
Cited by
48
References
0
Citations by year
2026: 6 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 2
FWCI
2.27
Type
book
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Routledge eBooks (publishedVersion)
  • University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham) (submittedVersion)
Funders
Economic and Social Research Council (ES/L011468/2, ES/L011468/1)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Law › Migration, Racism, and Human Rights
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration and Exile Studies
Keywords
impoverishment, asylum, refugees, poverty, forced migration

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