Abstract
This introductory chapter lays out the central aims of this book, including the objective of filling an evidentiary gap by drawing on first-hand accounts of asylum seekers’ experiences within dispersed accommodation managed by major private security firms like Serco and G4S. The introduction also situates the study of asylum seekers’ dispersed accommodation experiences within criminological approaches that incorporate zemiology (the study of harm), structural violence and the victimology of state violence as a means of critically examining the treatment of asylum seekers within the United Kingdom’s immigration control regime. This chapter concludes with an overview of the book’s structure.
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Hirschler, S.A. (2021). Introduction. In: Hostile Homes. Critical Criminological Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79213-8_1
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