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Introduction -- Asylum in Britain (an illusion of sanctuary?) -- Intersectional continuums of violence -- Structural violence in the British asylum system -- The infliction of social harm -- Hawwi : violence, resistance and survival -- Compounding trauma -- Silent denial -- Conclusion: resisting the spiral of silence -- Index

The increasingly punitive measures taken by European governments to deter people seeking asylum, including increased use of detention, internalised controls, reductions in in-country rights and procedural safeguards, have a hugely damaging impact on the lives and wellbeing of women survivors of torture, sexual and domestic violence. This article, based on a two-year research project examining Britain, Denmark and Sweden, involved more than 500 hours speaking with people seeking asylum, as well as interviews with practitioners. It highlights among other issues non-adherence to the Istanbul Convention (for Denmark and Sweden, who have ratified it); non-application of gender guidelines; and significant wholesale violations of refugee rights. It demonstrates some of the ways in which increasingly harsh policies impact on women seeking asylum and highlights the experiences relayed by some who are affected: those stuck in asylum systems and practitioners seeking to provide support. Indeed, it indicates that women seeking asylum in Britain, Denmark and Sweden are made more vulnerable to violence due to the actions or inactions of the states that are supposed to protect them.

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This article outlines key findings from an exploration of conflict related sexual violence support for women seeking asylum in Merseyside. It highlights major international and national advances in gendered legislation and policy in terms of response to escalations in violence against women fleeing conflict, but questions the level of priority these are given or how effective they are. Drawing on interviews with local organizations, an oral history with a rape survivor, and activist work in the local area, this article determines structural gaps in support and asylum review that have major impacts on the mental, emotional and social well-being of women, with wider impacts on asylum groups more generally. Ultimately, it argues that the impacts of sexual violence during, and beyond, conflict are profound, but not adequately recognized or considered during the asylum application process in the UK or in some cases, in localized communities and organizations.

"This book outlines key developments in understanding social harm by setting out its historical foundations and the discussions which have proliferated since. It examines various attempts to conceptualise social harm and highlights key sites of contestation in its relationship to criminology to argue that these act as the basis for an activist zemiology, one directed towards social change for social justice. The past two decades has seen a proliferation of debate related to social harm in and around criminology. From climate catastrophe and a focus on environmental harms, unprecedented deaths generating focus on border harms, and the coronavirus pandemic revealing the horror of mass and arguably avoidable deaths across the globe, critical studies in social harm appear ever more pressing. From Social Harm to Zemiology locates the study of social harm in an accessible fashion, drawing on a range of international case studies of cultural, emotional, physical and economic harms. In doing so it sets out how a zemiological lens can moves us beyond many of the problematic legacies of criminology. This book rejects criminologies which have disproportionately served to regulate intersectional groups, and which have arguably inflicted as much or more harm by bolstering the very ideologies of control in offering minor reforms that inadvertently expand and strengthen states and corporations. It does this by sketching out the contours, objects, methods and ontologies of a disciplinary framework which rejects commonplace assumptions of 'value freedom'. From Social Harm to Zemiology advocates social change in accordance with groups who are most disenfranchised, and thus often most socially harmed. An accessible and compelling read, this book is essential reading for all zemiologists, critical criminologists, and those engaged with criminological and social theory"--

Introduction: Contested Temporalities, Time and State Violence Monish Bhatia and Victoria Canning -- Chapter 1: "My Beloved Will Come Today or Tomorrow": Time and the "Left Behind" Liza Schuster, Reza Hussaini, Mona Hossaini, Razia Rezaie and Mohammad Riaz Khan Shinwari -- Chapter 2: Journeying and Encampment: Expanded Liminality and Protracted Refugee Temporalities Karam Yahya -- Chapter 3: Micropolitics of Time: Asylum Regimes, Temporalities and Everyday forms of Power Isabel Meier & Giorgia Donà -- Chapter 4: The Weaponisation of Time: Indefinite Detention as Torture Omid Tofighian and Behrouz Boochani -- Chapter 5: Contested Dreams, Stolen Futures: Struggles over Hope in the European Deportation Regime Annika Lindberg and Stanley Edward -- Chapter 6: Compounding Trauma through Temporal Harm Victoria Canning -- Chapter 7: "Starting from Scratch?": Adaptation After Deportation and Return Migration Among Young Mexican Migrants Alexis M. Silver, Melissa A. Manzanares and Liron Goldring -- Chapter 8: The Mexico City Runaround: Temporal Barriers to Rebuilding Life After Deportation Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz -- Chapter 9: Migration, Temporality and Violence in India: From Border Killings to National Register of Citizens and the Citizenship Amendment Act Monish Bhatia -- Chapter 10: The Violence Continuum: Border Crossings, Death and Time on the Island of Lesvos Evgenia Iliadou -- Epilogue Bridget Anderson. .

AbstractFeminism and prison abolitionism are not theoretically or politically homogenous, and yet in their mainstream versions they are often situated at polar ends of the debate on how to respond to domestic and sexualised violence. The disproportionately gendered nature of sexualised and interpersonal violence has largely centralised such abuses in feminist movements. However, histories of abolitionism – particularly in continental Europe – have largely failed to address the severity of this violence and its impacts. In this article, we highlight the implications of so‐called 'carceral' feminism on ending sexualised and interpersonal violence, while addressing key – and reasonable – critiques of abolitionism. Our central argument is that criminal justice has failed to significantly reduce and/or end sexualised or interpersonal violence. As such, we explore feminist‐centred, restorative, and transformative alternatives, not only to prison, but to societies that continue to embed systematic levels of sexualised and interpersonal violence.