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Gendered Harm and Structural Violence in the British Asylum System
Author(s) | By Victoria Canning (Liverpool John Moores University, UK). |
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Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Format | Hardback |
Pages | 224 |
Published in | United Kingdom |
Published | 30 Mar 2017 |
Availability | Not yet available |
Introduction 1. The Political Landscape of Asylum in Britain 2. Rendered Vulnerable by the State: Structural Violence in the Asylum System 3. Compounding Trauma: Impacts of the Asylum System on Survivors of Torture, Sexual Torture and Sexual Abuse 4.
Victoria Canning is a Lecturer in Criminology at The Open University, UK. For the past decade she has been involved in feminist and asylum rights campaigns in the North West of England. She is co-ordinator of the Prisons, Punishment and Detention Working