Cities of Sanctuary in Environments of Hostility: Competing and Contrasting Migration Infrastructures

What is it about?

This paper examines the different ways in which the hostile environment is experienced and brought to life. It shows how everyday spaces – houses provided to forced migrants, the urban landscape and spaces offering care and support to forced migrants – are shaped by the British government’s and public's antipathy towards migration, and become sites through which borders between forced migrants and other members of the population are enforced.

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