Gendered Harm and Structural Violence in the British Asylum System
Winner of the 2018 British Society of Criminology Book PrizeBritain is often heralded as a country in which the rights and welfare of survivors of conflict and persecution are well embedded, and where the standard of living conditions for those seeking asylum is relatively high. Drawing on a decade of activism and research in the North West of England, this book contends that, on the contrary, conditions are often structurally violent. For survivors of gendered violence, harm inflicted throughout the process of seeking asylum can be intersectional and compound the impacts of previous experiences of violent continuums. The everyday threat of d…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-317-52059-7
- EAN: 9781317520597
- Produktnummer: 25388043
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'536 KB
- Abbildungen: 5 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 3 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 2 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 5 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
Victoria Canning is a Lecturer in Criminology at The Open University, UK. For the past decade she has been involved in feminist and asylum rights campaigns in the North West of England. She is co-ordinator of the Prisons, Punishment and Detention Working Group with the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control and, amongst other affiliations, is an activist with Merseyside Women's Movement.
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