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Corrosive Control

State-Corporate and Gendered Harm in Bordered Britain

Bibliographic Data

ID6052022
AuthorsVictoria Canning (University of Bristol, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume28
Issue2
Pages259-275
Publication date2020-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Criminology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1205-8629 • E-ISSN: 1572-9877
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s10612-020-09509-1
OpenAlexW3030523931
LanguageEN
Citations received30
References cited32

As gendered discourses around migration proliferate, research and practitioner focus is often trained on experiences of women in interpersonal capacities, primarily in regard to subjections to predominately male violence. Drawing on research in Britain and activist participation with women seeking asylum, this article expands this focus into the realm of state-corporate harms against women. Previous research demonstrates that immigration law and policy often work to minimalize autonomy at the ground level, and dependence on spousal visas or housing and finances can exacerbate dependence on men, including violent men. This article argues that this punitive landscape of Britain’s asylum system facilitates further violence against women seeking asylum, rather than ensuring protection. Moreover, harm isinflictedby the structures of coercive control set forth by the state and its amorphous relations with corporations. Such structures are largely manufactured by the British state, but increasingly enacted by its corporate allies. These environments, I argue, mirror those of domestically violent perpetrators and work to gradually corrode women’s autonomy and indeed sense of safety

Autonomy · Criminology · Harm · Immigration · Immigration law · Political science · Punitive damages · Realm · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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Unique citing works30
Citations per year5
Citation span2020 - 2026 (7)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 29

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