E130 Lucy Mayblin: Colonial legacies in asylum & refugee policies in Britain

Lucy critically outlines some of the remaining colonial entanglements of asylum & refugee policies from the 1951 Geneva Convention, the New Labour years and more contemporary violence enacted by the Home Office. Useful links: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/socstudies/people/academic-staff/lucy-mayblin https://politybooks.com/?s=Migration+Studies+and+Colonialism https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781783486168/Asylum-after-Empire-Colonial-Legacies-in-the-Politics-of-Asylum-Seeking https://www.routledge.com/Impoverishment-and-Asylum-Social-Policy-as-Slow-Violence/Mayblin/p/book/9780367423100