Impoverishment and Asylum - Social Policy As Slow Violence

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Lucy Mayblin, Lucy (University of Sheffield Mayblin, Mayblin Lucy
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367423100
• ISBN: 978-0-367-42310-0
• No. of pages: 156
• Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Sociology, Law, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Colonialism & imperialism, Migration, immigration & emigration, Social issues & processes, Political Economy, Migration, immigration and emigration, Colonialism and imperialism, Social and ethical issues, Civil rights & citizenship, Civics and citizenship