Systems of Suffering: Dispersal and the Denial of Asylum Darling Jonathan
'Elegant and disturbing. A brilliant analysis of the cruel biopolitics of care in contemporary Britain' - Ash AminOf the many state-enacted cruelties to which refugees and asylum seekers are…
Specifikacia Systems of Suffering: Dispersal and the Denial of Asylum Darling Jonathan
'Elegant and disturbing. A brilliant analysis of the cruel biopolitics of care in contemporary Britain' - Ash AminOf the many state-enacted cruelties to which refugees and asylum seekers are subjected, detention and deportation loom largest in popular consciousness. But there is a third practice, perpetrating a slower violence, that remains hidden: dispersal.Jonathan Darling provides the first detailed account of how dispersal - the system of accommodation and support for asylum seekers and refugees in Britain - both sustains and produces patterns of violence, suffering and social abjection. He explores the evolution of dispersal as a privatized process, from the first outsourced asylum accommodation contracts in 2012 to the renewed wave of outsourcing pursued by the Home Office today.Drawing on six years of research into Britain's dispersal system, and foregrounding
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