Hostile Environments
Housing and Asylum Policies as Drivers of Energy Deprivation Among UK Refugee Communities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7155293 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Manon Burbidge (0000-0001-9775-5239, University of Manchester, corresponding author), Stefan Bouzarovski (0000-0002-0045-3400, University of Manchester), Kate Lucas (0000-0002-4009-7017, University of Manchester), Saskia Warren (0000-0003-2530-453X, University of Manchester) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 335-351 |
| Publication date | 2025-05-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Housing Theory and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1403-6096 • E-ISSN: 1651-2278 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14036096.2024.2413523 |
| OpenAlex | W4403406941 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 74 |
Although refugees in the UK are highly susceptible to the triad of factors–low income, poor housing and high energy bills–that produce vulnerability to energy deprivation, literature on this issue is rare. We therefore propose a framework towards understanding the role of “non-energy” policies as drivers of energy deprivation among UK refugees, using the conceptual lenses of deservingness, welfare chauvinism and domicide to demonstrate how the condition has been deliberately produced under the UK government’s Hostile Environment approach. We argue that this approach not only damages the physical materiality of housing and the emotional space of home, but also deleteriously impacts upon refugees’ ability to access adequate energy services. Energy deprivation thus emerges as a hidden consequence of policies that normalize precarious housing, a denial of rights, and inadequate incomes, in which “home” becomes a site of exclusion that achieves the Hostile Environment’s goal–making everyday life unbearable
Business · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Political science · Refugee · Relative deprivation · Energy and Environment Impacts · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
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The Financialization of Housing
Systems of Suffering
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Recognition of and response to energy poverty in the United States
Us versus Them
Immigration and Welfare
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Ethnicity, Race and Inequality in the UK
The Language of Asylum
Asylum after Empire
The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty
Active Waiting and Changing Hopes
A mixed methods systematic review of studies examining the relationship between housing and health for people from refugee and asylum seeking backgrounds
The diversity penalty
Identifying double energy vulnerability
Energy poverty and social relations
A global perspective on domestic energy deprivation
Rethinking energy demand governance
Recognition justice in Australia
The emerging world of humanitarian energy
Framing Outsidedness – Aspects of Housing Quality in Decentralized Reception Centres for Asylum Seekers in Norway
Housing precarity
Spaces of exception
Stranger danger? The intersectional impacts of shared housing on young people's health & wellbeing
Eating, heating or taking the bus? Lived experiences at the intersection of energy and transport poverty
Asylum in Austere Times
Refugee Research Methodologies
The revival of private rented housing in Britain
Moving Towards Integration
The impact of housing on refugees
Low-income Tenants in the Private Rental Housing Market
Housing and the New Welfare State
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Bordering practices in the UK welfare system
Punishing those who do the wrong thing’
The privatization of council housing
Making Homes in Limbo? A Conceptual Framework
The Myth of “Broken Britain”
Introduction to Feature
Rendered invisible
It’s what I’ve always done’
The role of housing and neighbourhood in the re‐settlement process
Nothing Personal
A cure-all for energy poverty? Thinking critically about energy advice
The ends of perpetual crisis
Understanding Integration
Welfare Ghettos" and the "Broken Society
Rethinking Domicide
Designed to fail
Becoming Bare Life
Space Matters - Marginalization and Its Places
Positive Functions of the Undeserving Poor
Fairness and the Politics of Resentment
Home in Canada? The Settlement Experiences of Tibetans in Parkdale, Toronto
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |