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Zusatztext 82127966 Informationen zum Autor Victoria Canning is a Lecturer in Criminology at The Open University, UK. For the past decade she has been involved in feminist and asylum rights campaigns in the North West of England. She is co-ordinator of the Prisons, Punishment and Detention Working Group with the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control and, amongst other affiliations, is an activist with Merseyside Women’s Movement. Klappentext Winner of the 2018 British Society of Criminology Book PrizeBritain is often heralded as a country in which the rights and welfare of survivors of conflict and persecution are well embedded, and where the standard of living conditions for those seeking asylum is relatively high. Drawing on a decade of activism and research in the North West of England, this book contends that, on the contrary, conditions are often structurally violent. For survivors of gendered violence, harm inflicted throughout the process of seeking asylum can be intersectional and compound the impacts of previous experiences of violent continuums. The everyday threat of detention and deportation; poor housing and inadequate welfare access; and systemic cuts to domestic and sexual violence support all contribute to a temporal limbo which limits women's personal autonomy and access to basic human rights.By reflecting on evidence from interviews, focus groups, activist participation and oral history, Gendered Harm and Structural Violence provides a unique insight into the everyday impacts of policy and practice that arguably result in the infliction of further gendered harms on survivors of violence and persecution.Of interest to students and scholars of criminology, zemiology, sociology, human rights, migration policy, state violence and gender, this book develops on and adds to the expanding literatures around immigration, crimmigration and asylum. Zusammenfassung This monograph combines empirical research with criminological perspective to critically address issues of state power, harm and violence in the British asylum system. Focussing on the treatment of women seeking asylum, it expands existing studies of border control and immigration to include a gendered analysis of harms of the system. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Asylum in Britain (An Illusion of Sanctuary?) 2. Intersectional Continuums of Violence 3. Structural Violence in the British Asylum System 4. The Infliction of Social Harm 5. Hawwi: Violence, Resistance and Survival 6. Compounding Trauma 7. Silent Denial Conclusion: Resisting the Spiral of Silence Index ...
