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Hostile Environments: Refugees, Asylum Seekers and the Politics of Loneliness

Maguire, Anna; (2023) Hostile Environments: Refugees, Asylum Seekers and the Politics of Loneliness. New Formations: a journal of culture/theory/politics , 109 pp. 47-61. 10.3898/NEWF:109.04.2023. Green open access

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Abstract

Claims to a historic tradition of 'sanctuary' in the United Kingdom are contested by the long, entangled roots of the hostile environment, long before its official announcement as policy by the 2012 Coalition government. What happens if we frame this hostility or inhospitability as the structural enforcement of loneliness? Loneliness is the consequence of racism and xenophobia. It is a weapon used by the state, to construct borders, to separate families, to imprison, to detain, to deport, to take away belonging. Loneliness can be a lack of recognition, of being without status or documents, of indefiniteness, of lives lived precariously or in poverty. This essay takes the experiences of refugee loneliness in the second half of the twentieth century as enforced through the policy of dispersal to examine how isolation has been articulated and how its impact has been countered.

Type: Article
Title: Hostile Environments: Refugees, Asylum Seekers and the Politics of Loneliness
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.3898/NEWF:109.04.2023
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.3898/NEWF:109.04.2023
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: refugees, dispersal, solidarity, Britain, hostile environment
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of History
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10177211
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