Systems of Suffering
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'Elegant and disturbing [...] a brilliant analysis of the cruel biopolitics of care in contemporary Britain'
» Ash Amin, Chair of Geography at Cambridge University
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Pluto Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780745340487
- Utgivelsesår
- 2022
- Format
- 22 x 14 cm
Anmeldelser
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'Elegant and disturbing [...] a brilliant analysis of the cruel biopolitics of care in contemporary Britain'
» Ash Amin, Chair of Geography at Cambridge University
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'Indispensable reading for anyone interested in the contemporary policies, practices, spaces, and politics of asylum'
» Suzan Ilcan, Professor of Sociology at the University of Waterloo, Ontario
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'A tour-de-force. The evidence for the violence of the country's system of dispersal of asylum-seekers is shocking. Bursting with ideas, this book contains the seeds of an urgently-needed political, social and cultural transformation'
» Ben Rogaly, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sussex
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'Rigorously diagnoses a long-term malaise in the UK system of 'asylum accommodation'. An inexorably unaccountable system hidden in plain sight, in poverty blighted communities. A system that separates people from mainstream life, frequently with loss of hope and health. A system that reduces people to unit costs in often profitable company accounts. A system that does not need to be like this. This book shows us how to change it'
» Graham O'Neill, human rights worker for Commission for Racial Equality, Equality and Human Rights Co
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'A forensic and compelling examination of how systems that exist in theory to protect some of the most vulnerable people in our society end up harming them'
» Daniel Trilling, journalist and author of 'Lights In The Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders o
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'A much-needed book about the workings and effects of dispersal. Darling brilliantly unveils how exhaustion operates as a governing strategy; how the sufferings of dispersal are created by or endured through withdrawal, fragmentation, weariness, but also defiance and care'
» Anne-Marie Fortier, Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University
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'Essential and compelling [...] illuminates the humanity of people navigating their violent dispersal through systems designed to treat them inhumanely'
» Alison Mountz, author of 'The Death of Asylum'