Lived experiences of food insecurity and food charity among asylum seekers in England

"Racialized Governance and a "Culture of Suspicion

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ID2149682
AutoresMaddy Power (0000-0002-9571-1782, University of York), Madeleine Baxter (0009-0009-3499-2275, University of York)
Ano2024
Volume49
Fascículo1
Páginas1-23
Data de publicação2024-09-16
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2024.2399726
OpenAlexW4402807159
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas34

We critically examine the lived experience of food insecurity among asylum seekers in England, adopting a framework of racialised governance to consider how experiences are situated within historical and political processes. We draw upon longitudinal interviews from January 2023-February 2024 with people, including asylum seekers, living on a low-income in the North and South of England. Food insecurity was unavoidable for asylum seekers subject to No Recourse to Public Funds; food charities did little to mitigate food insecurity and could be sites of racialised stigma. The racialisation of food insecurity among asylum seekers was fuelled by a politics of 'racialised governance' which gained cultural traction through media narratives and manifested in everyday interactions around food. Developing literature on food insecurity among asylum seekers through new empirical and theoretical insights, we show how food charities can be racialised spaces where 'non-white' asylum seekers are responded to according to a differential humanity

Business · Corporate governance · Food insecurity · Food security · Geography · Immigration · Islamophobia · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration