Asylum after Empire: Colonial Legacies in the Politics of Asylum Seeking (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781783486151)

Lucy Mayblin is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her research focuses on the political sociology of asylum. Lucy is co-convenor of the British Sociological Association's Study Group on Diaspora, Migration and Transnationalism, has been Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, and 2015-2018 holds a prestigious ESRC Future Research Leaders fellowship for research in to the economic rights of asylum seekers. This book, which won the Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2018, is based on her doctoral research, which was funded by the ESRC.