Impoverishment and Asylum: Social Policy as Slow Violence
- Submitting institution
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The University of Sheffield
- Unit of assessment
- 21 - Sociology
- Output identifier
- 6509
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.4324/9780367823450
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780367423100
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book is based on four years of empirical research (policy analysis, interviews with policy makers, politicians NGOs and asylum seekers) conducted as part of an ESRC Future Research Leaders project on the economic rights of people awaiting a decision on their asylum application. It 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 led to the purposeful impoverishment, by the state, of people seeking asylum in the UK.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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