Hostile Homes: Violence, Harm and the Marketisation of UK Asylum Housing

by Steven A. Hirschler

This book explores the ways in which the state and private security firms contribute to the direct and structural harm of asylum seekers through policies and practices that result in states of perpetual destitution, exclusion, and neglect. By synthesising historic and contemporary public policy, criminological and sociological perspectives, political philosophy, and the direct experiential accounts of asylum seekers living within dispersed accommodation,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030792129
• ISBN13: 9783030792121
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"