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Project

Racism and profit accumulation in asylum accommodation: navigating Britain’s housing logic and the refusal to be disposable.
Code
01CD1923
Duration
06 June 2023 → 05 February 2024
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Political and legal anthropology
Keywords
citizenship stratification asylum accommodation organised abandonment Racism racial capitalism
 
Project description
 

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with asylum seekers and refugees in London and
Kent, this thesis examines how policies and practices of the state, corporations and landlords lead
to housing dispossession and displacement in Britain, while profits amass. It finds that the
organised abandonment in asylum housing, often informed by structural racism, puts residents’
health and lives at risk.