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View article: Support and Autonomy: Social Workers’ Approaches in Dutch Shelters for Female Survivors of Domestic Violence
Support and Autonomy: Social Workers’ Approaches in Dutch Shelters for Female Survivors of Domestic Violence Open
It is not uncommon that women residing in Dutch shelters following domestic violence consider returning to their partners during the course of their stay. Social workers cannot prohibit return due to the importance of the client’s autonomy…
View article: Hotels, refuge, and the rise of carceral hospitality
Hotels, refuge, and the rise of carceral hospitality Open
Geographical work on hotels has foregrounded their role as spaces of commercial hospitality, leisure, and increasingly as sites of emergency accommodation for a range of displaced groups. Developing such work, this paper critically examine…
View article: Interview with Jonathan Darling, author of Systems of Suffering: Dispersal and the Denial of Asylum (2022)
Interview with Jonathan Darling, author of Systems of Suffering: Dispersal and the Denial of Asylum (2022) Open
This conversation between Jonathan Darling and Sarah M. Hughes focuses on Darling's recently published book Systems of Suffering: Dispersal and the Denial of Asylum (2022) . Based on research conducted over the course of six years, Systems…
View article: The Urbanisation of Asylum
The Urbanisation of Asylum Open
This chapter explores the growing prominence of urban contexts, urban authorities, and urban politics in shaping debates on asylum and refuge that have traditionally been orientated around the nation-state. Focusing on the case of Glasgow,…
View article: Governing through partnership: Strategic migration partnerships and the politics of enrolment and ambivalence
Governing through partnership: Strategic migration partnerships and the politics of enrolment and ambivalence Open
This paper examines the role of partnerships in the governance of UK migration policy, considering how partnerships have been mobilised to navigate tensions between multiple state and non-state actors. The paper focuses on the work of regi…
View article: Institutional Solidarity in The Netherlands: Examining the Role of Dutch Policies in Women with Migration Backgrounds’ Decisions to Leave a Violent Relationship
Institutional Solidarity in The Netherlands: Examining the Role of Dutch Policies in Women with Migration Backgrounds’ Decisions to Leave a Violent Relationship Open
In The Netherlands, women who experience domestic violence can rely on public policies that aim to support them, such as shelters. Drawing on the lived experiences, through 10 interviews and observations, of women with different cultural b…
View article: The Cautious Politics of “Humanizing” Refugee Research
The Cautious Politics of “Humanizing” Refugee Research Open
In this intervention, I reflect on what it may mean to ‘humanize’ refugee research. The assumption often made is that ‘humanizing’ can arise through a concern with the particularity of the individual, through drawing from ‘the mass’ the na…
View article: Refugee urbanism: seeing asylum “like a city”
Refugee urbanism: seeing asylum “like a city” Open
This paper explores how asylum might be understood from an urban perspective. The paper focuses on a range of conceptual interventions mobilized around the notion of ‘seeing like a city’, which foreground the pragmatic and compositional na…
View article: Participation and wellbeing in urban greenspace: ‘curating sociability’ for refugees and asylum seekers
Participation and wellbeing in urban greenspace: ‘curating sociability’ for refugees and asylum seekers Open
This paper examines how asylum seekers and refugees experience urban greenspaces. Whilst often overlooked in a focus on support services and integration, we argue that critically exploring the importance of urban greenspaces has wider impl…
View article: The fragility of welcome – commentary to Gill
The fragility of welcome – commentary to Gill Open
In this commentary, I take Nick Gill’s discussion of the ‘suppression of welcome’ and the politics of hospitality, as a starting point for reflection on how ‘cultures of welcome’ are produced. In exploring the work of those supporting asyl…
View article: Acts, ambiguities, and the labour of contesting citizenship
Acts, ambiguities, and the labour of contesting citizenship Open
This afterword discusses a variety of approaches to exploring the contestation of citizenship, and foregrounds the spatial politics that underpin forms of contestation, struggle and claims making. Beginning with a reflection on how recent …
View article: Refugees
Refugees Open
Refugees are individuals or groups who have been forced to leave their home and have sought refuge across an international boundary. Refugees pose a series of challenges to nation‐states in terms of classification, accommodation, and human…
View article: Asylum in Austere Times: Instability, Privatization and Experimentation within the UK Asylum Dispersal System
Asylum in Austere Times: Instability, Privatization and Experimentation within the UK Asylum Dispersal System Open
In 2010, the UK government passed contracts for the provision of dispersal accommodation and reception services for asylum seekers to three private providers. This article explores the causes and consequences of this process, arguing that …
View article: Privatising asylum: neoliberalisation, depoliticisation and the governance of forced migration
Privatising asylum: neoliberalisation, depoliticisation and the governance of forced migration Open
This paper critically examines the political geography of asylum accommodation in the UK , arguing that in the regulation of housing and support services we witness the depoliticisation of asylum. In 2010, the UK Home Office announced that…
View article: Forced migration and the city
Forced migration and the city Open
This paper explores the relationship between forced migration and the city. The paper outlines four accounts of the city centred on: displacement and the camp-city, dispersal and refugee resettlement, the ‘re-scaling’ of borders, and the c…