Impoverishment and Asylum: Social Policy as Slow Violence

by Lucy Mayblin

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.

This shift has far-reaching consequences for people seeking asylum, who have been systematically impoverished...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367423103
• ISBN13: 9780367423100
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"