The dispersal and social exclusion of asylum seekers : : Between liminality and belonging / / Patricia Hynes.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• VerfasserIn: Hynes, Patricia,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)

This book establishes asylum seekers as a socially excluded group, investigating the policy of dispersing asylum seekers across the UK and providing an overview of historic and contemporary dispersal systems. It is the first book to seek to understand how asylum seekers experience the dispersal system and the impact this has on their lives. The author argues that deterrent asylum policies increase the sense of liminality experienced by individuals, challenges assumptions that asylum seekers should be socially excluded until receipt of refugee status and illustrates how they create their own sense of 'belonging' in the absence of official recognition. Academics, students, policy-makers and practitioners would all benefit from reading this book.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of boxes, figures and tables -- List of abbreviations -- Glossary -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Social exclusion and refugees -- Key terms and concepts -- Dispersal -- The evolution and geography of dispersal -- The process and experience of dispersal -- Access to services -- Social networks and belonging -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index