Migrant Homelessness and the Crimmigration Control System

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-20633-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 134 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 209 g

Reihe: Explorations in Housing Studies

Migrant Homelessness and the Crimmigration Control System offers new insights into the drivers of homelessness following migration by unpacking the housing consequences of ‘crimmigration’ control systems in the US and the UK. The book advances ‘housing sacrifice’ as a concept to understand journeys in and out of homelessness and the coping strategies migrants employ. Undergirded by persuasive empirical research, it offers a compelling case for a ‘social citizenship’ right to housing guaranteed across social, political and civil realms of society. The book is structured around the 30 life stories of people who have migrated to the capital cities of Boston and Edinburgh from Central America and Eastern Europe. The narratives are complemented by interviews with a range of stakeholders (including frontline caseworkers, activists and policymakers). Guided by the tenets of critical realist theory, this book offers a biographical inquiry into the intersections of race, class and gender and provides insight into the everyday precarity homeless migrants face, by listening to them directly. It will be of interest to students, scholars, and policymakers across a range of fields including housing, immigration, criminology, sociology, and human geography.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Serpa, Regina

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Wohnen & Obdachlosigkeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Garten- und Landschaftsarchitektur
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables. Acknowledgments. 1.Introduction. 2.Using Critical Realism to Understand Migrant Homelessness and Crimmigration Control. 3.Three Drivers of Migration—Survival, Freedom and Opportunity. 4.Service Provision in a ‘Hostile Environment’. 5.Exclusion and Housing Sacrifice. 6.Conclusion: Crimmigration, Housing Sacrifice, Citizenship and the Right to Housing. 7.Postscript: The Magic of Crimmigration. Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Regina Serpa is a housing researcher and an RTPI chartered planner based in the UK. She is currently a lecturer in housing at the University of Stirling and a committee member of the Housing Studies Association. Previously, she was a Primary Investigator on a comparative, three-country study of migrant homelessness—an ESRC-funded postdoctoral research collaboration with Leiden Law School and the University of Stirling. She obtained her Doctorate (PhD) degree in Urban Studies in 2019 from Heriot-Watt University. Regina is a consultant at a private research firm in Scotland and a guest researcher at Leiden University where her research focuses on international crimmigration law—the convergence of criminal and immigration law.