The slow violence of austerity politics and the UK's 'hostile environment': Examining the responses of third sector organisations supporting people seeking asylum
The slow violence of austerity politics and the UK's 'hostile environment': Examining the responses of third sector organisations supporting people seeking asylum
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紧缩政治的缓慢暴力和英国的“敌对环境”：审视支持寻求庇护者的第三部门组织的反应
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10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103845
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发表时间：
2023
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3.5
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Benwell M
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作者：
Benwell M
在地球仪范围内，寻求庇护的人们面临着日益严重的证券化、监视、敌意和暴力。在英国，连续几届工党和保守党政府都试图为没有休假的人留在英国创造一个越来越“敌对的环境”，在这个过程中产生并延续了反移民情绪。本文重点关注这种敌意政治与全面的紧缩政策相结合对英格兰东北部一座城市及其周边地区的第三部门组织的影响。我们特别关注提供文化，体育和艺术活动的组织，以深入了解他们的运作方式如何受到英国移民和紧缩政策的影响。通过在几个组织的研究人员志愿服务和观察以及与他们相关的人的采访，我们记录了一些安静的护理和团结的共同做法，尽管他们面临着重大的资金挑战。我们展示了这些组织如何为寻求庇护的人提供重要的支持结构，提供共享空间，促进各种活动的“共同行动”。然而，我们也展示了这些第三部门的反应，以及参加他们的人，是如何被这种敌对的政治塑造和约束的。我们研究了最初成立的组织如何专注于提供文化和艺术活动，越来越多地需要量身定制他们的服务，通过提供，例如，食物，衣服和官僚（但必不可少的）填表援助，提供至关重要的支持形式。该文件作出了重要贡献，相对较少的文献在第三部门的文化和艺术的举措，为寻求庇护的人，并呼吁敏感的学术批评的部门，前沿国家结构性暴力和社会政治背景下，庇护部门组织运作。
Around the globe, people seeking asylum are subject to ever-increasing levels of securitisation, surveillance, hostility and violence. In the UK, successive Labour and Conservative governments have sought to create an increasingly ‘hostile environment’ for people without leave to remain in the country, generating and perpetuating anti-immigrant sentiment in the process. This paper centres attention on the implications of this politics of hostility, which has combined with sweeping levels of austerity, for third sector organisations in and around a city situated in the North East of England. We specifically focus on organisations offering cultural, sporting and artistic activities to gain an insight into how the ways they operate are affected by the UK’s immigration and austerity politics. Through researcher volunteering and observation at several organisations and interviews with people associated with them, we document some of the shared practices of quiet care and solidarity, in spite of the significant funding challenges they face. We show how these organisations are providing a crucial support structure to people seeking asylum, offering shared spaces that facilitate the ‘doing together’ of various activities. However, we also show how these third sector responses, and the people who attend them, are shaped and constrained by this hostile politics. We examine how organisations initially set up to focus on the provision of cultural and artistic activities are increasingly having to tailor their services to provide vitally important forms of support through the provision of, for example, food, clothing and assistance with bureaucratic (but essential) form-filling. The paper makes a key contribution to the relatively scant literature on cultural and artistic initiatives in the third sector set up for people seeking asylum and calls for sensitive academic critiques of the sector that forefront state structural violence and the socio-political contexts in which asylum sector organisations operate.