Power, Madeleine orcid.org/0000-0002-9571-1782 and Baxter, Maddie (2024) Lived experiences of food insecurity and food charity among asylum seekers in England:Racialised governance and a ‘culture of suspicion’. ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES. ISSN 0141-9870
Abstract
We critically examine the lived experience of food insecurity among asylum seekers in England, adopting a framework of racialised governance to consider how experiences are situated within historical and political processes. We draw upon longitudinal interviews from January 2023-February 2024 with people, including asylum seekers, living on a low-income in the North and South of England. Food insecurity was unavoidable for asylum seekers subject to No Recourse to Public Funds; food charities did little to mitigate food insecurity and could be sites of racialised stigma. The racialisation of food insecurity among asylum seekers was fuelled by a politics of ‘racialised governance’ which gained cultural traction through media narratives and manifested in everyday interactions around food. Developing literature on food insecurity among asylum seekers through new empirical and theoretical insights, we show how food charities can be racialised spaces where ‘non-white’ asylum seekers are responded to according to a differential humanity.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | food insecurity,Refugee,Asylum seekers,food charity,racism,racialisation |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Health Sciences (York) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number WELLCOME TRUST 221021/Z/20/Z |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 28 Aug 2024 11:10 |
Last Modified: | 15 Dec 2024 00:11 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2024.2399726 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/01419870.2024.2399726 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:216543 |
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