Mayblin, L. orcid.org/0000-0001-6602-2091 (2020) Necropolitics and the slow violence of the everyday: Asylum seeker welfare in the postcolonial present. Sociology, 54 (1). pp. 107-123. ISSN 0038-0385
Abstract
This article responds to dual calls for researching and theorising everyday social phenomena in postcolonial studies on the one hand, and serious engagement with the postcolonial within the discipline of sociology on the other. It focuses on the everyday lives of asylum seekers living on asylum seeker welfare support in the UK. Asylum seekers offer a good case study for exploring the postcolonial everyday because they live in poverty and consequently experience daily harms at the hands of the state, despite the UK fulfilling its obligations to them under human rights law. The article proposes a conceptual framework drawing together sociologies of the everyday, necropolitics and slow violence in tracing how hierarchical conceptions of human worth impact on the everyday.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 The Author. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is properly attributed. |
Keywords: | Asylum; Necropolitics; Postcolonial; Slow Violence; Welfare |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Sociological Studies (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ECONOMIC & SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL ES/L011468/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 18 Jun 2019 11:52 |
Last Modified: | 13 May 2021 16:51 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0038038519862124 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:147411 |