{"product_id":"systems-of-suffering-jonathan-darling-9780745340487","title":"Systems of Suffering: Dispersal and the Denial of Asylum","description":"'Elegant and disturbing. A brilliant analysis of the cruel biopolitics of care in contemporary Britain' - Ash Amin \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Of the many state-enacted cruelties to which refugees and asylum seekers are subjected, detention and deportation loom largest in popular consciousness. But there is a third practice, perpetrating a slower violence, that remains hidden: dispersal. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jonathan Darling provides the first detailed account of how dispersal - the system of accommodation and support for asylum seekers and refugees in Britain - both sustains and produces patterns of violence, suffering and social abjection. He explores the evolution of dispersal as a privatized process, from the first outsourced asylum accommodation contracts in 2012 to the renewed wave of outsourcing pursued by the Home Office today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing on six years of research into Britain's dispersal system, and foregrounding the voices and experiences of refugees and asylum seekers, Darling argues that dispersal has played a central role in the erasure of asylum from public concern. \u003ci\u003eSystems of Suffering\u003c\/i\u003e is a vital tool in the arsenal of those fighting to hold the government to account for the violence of its asylum policy and practice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan Darling\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0745340482\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780745340487\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pluto Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/20\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.20w x 0.50d","brand":"Jonathan Darling","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43942932316415,"sku":"9780745340487","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_3f124a5b-9dd7-4a99-bdbc-4a8503319ad2.jpg?v=1681495208","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/systems-of-suffering-jonathan-darling-9780745340487","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}