Gendered Harm and Structural Violence in the British Asylum System

ISBN-13: 9780367199050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 194 str.

Victoria Canning

Opis

This monograph combines empirical research with criminological perspective to critically address issues of state power, harm and violence in the British asylum system. Focussing on the treatment of women seeking asylum, it expands existing studies of border control and immigration to include a gendered analysis of harms of the system.

O autorze

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.