{"product_id":"impoverishment-and-asylum-lucy-mayblin-9781032084411","title":"Impoverishment and Asylum: Social Policy as Slow Violence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eImpoverishment and Asylum\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis shift has far-reaching consequences for people seeking asylum, who have been systematically impoverished as part of the effort to strip out any possibility of an economic pull factor leading to more arrivals, but also for those administering their support system, and for civil society organisations and groups who seek to ameliorate the worst effects of the resulting asylum regimes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book argues that within this context asylum support policies in the UK which are meant to help and protect, in fact do serious harm to their recipients. It argues that the shift from construing asylum seekers as economically, rather than politically, motivated migrants across the West, is part of a much broader set of historical and philosophical worldviews than has previously been articulated. The book offers a rigorously researched and richly theorised analysis drawing on postcolonial and decolonial perspectives in making sense of the purposeful impoverishment by the state of a particular group of people, and why this continues to be tolerated in the fourth richest country in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lucy Mayblin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1032084413\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781032084411\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 172\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.50d","brand":"Lucy Mayblin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44321581007103,"sku":"9781032084411","price":52.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2ff16cc2-1d34-444a-b8df-2d8e18cb7320.jpg?v=1696331627","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/impoverishment-and-asylum-lucy-mayblin-9781032084411","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}