Living in Fear

Rejected Asylum Seekers Living as Irregular Migrants in England

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3633763
AutoresA Bloch (0000-0001-9757-8930, Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University, autor correspondente)
Ano2014
Volume40
Fascículo10
Páginas1507-1525
Data de publicação2014-10-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoNew Community (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1369183x.2013.859070
OpenAlexW2086379551
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas36
Referências citadas26

Drawing on data from in-depth interviews with refused asylum seekers from Zimbabwe and Kurds from Turkey, who have stayed in Britain as irregular migrants, this paper examines everyday lives, strategies and fears. The paper focuses on four main areas: individual experiences of the asylum system leading to irregularity; living as an irregular migrant with the constraints on economic participation and limited housing options; social lives, relationships and community activities alongside the ways in which decisions about social interactions intersect with irregularity and subsistence support; the fears and everyday struggles faced by irregular migrant's living in England, and the ways in which this translates into relationships with place and space. The paper draws out both the commonalities and the diversity of experiences among refused asylum seekers living in England

Criminology · Geography · Political science · Refugee · Sociology · Subsistence agriculture · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration