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This book offers new insights into the drivers of homelessness following migration by unpacking the housing consequences of 'crimmigration' control systems in the US and UK. The book advances 'housing sacrifice' as a concept to understand journeys in and out of homelessness and the coping strategies migrants employ.
List of contents
List of Tables. Acknowledgments. 1.Introduction. 2.Using Critical Realism to Understand Migrant Homelessness and Crimmigration Control. 3.Three Drivers of Migration—Survival, Freedom and Opportunity. 4.Service Provision in a ‘Hostile Environment’. 5.Exclusion and Housing Sacrifice. 6.Conclusion: Crimmigration, Housing Sacrifice, Citizenship and the Right to Housing. 7.Postscript: The Magic of Crimmigration. Index.
About the author
Regina Serpa is a housing researcher and an RTPI chartered planner based in the UK. She is currently a lecturer in housing at the University of Stirling and a committee member of the Housing Studies Association. Previously, she was a Primary Investigator on a comparative, three-country study of migrant homelessness—an ESRC-funded postdoctoral research collaboration with Leiden Law School and the University of Stirling. She obtained her Doctorate (PhD) degree in Urban Studies in 2019 from Heriot-Watt University. Regina is a consultant at a private research firm in Scotland and a guest researcher at Leiden University where her research focuses on international crimmigration law—the convergence of criminal and immigration law.
Summary
This book offers new insights into the drivers of homelessness following migration by unpacking the housing consequences of ‘crimmigration’ control systems in the US and UK. The book advances ‘housing sacrifice’ as a concept to understand journeys in and out of homelessness and the coping strategies migrants employ.
