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""Unlike the slow violence that pervades this book, any reader concerned with social injustice will be moved to devour this searing text at a fast pace. In a theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich account, Lucy Mayblin shines a light on the logics of differential humanity and purposeful impoverishment that lie at the centre of asylum policy in the UK. This book is compelling, insightful, urgent and brilliantly written. I implore you to read it."" — Louise Waite, Professor of Human Geography, University of Leeds, UK ""Mayblin's book is the first to uncover in great detail the ramifications of the UK's policy of asylum seeker impoverishment on the everyday lives of asylum seekers. Introducing the idea of slow violence she unpicks the multiple harms occasioned by the state against asylum seekers and highlights the role of civil society in offering some amelioration of the state's actions. This book is essential reading for anyone who cares about refugees and asylum seekers: policymakers, practitioners, academics, students and human rights activists."" — Jenny Phillimore, Professor of Migration and Superdiversity and Director of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity, University of Birmingham, UK

Unlike the slow violence that pervades this book, any reader concerned with social injustice will be moved to devour this searing text at a fast pace. In a theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich account, Lucy Mayblin shines a light on the logics of differential humanity and purposeful impoverishment that lie at the centre of asylum policy in the UK. This book is compelling, insightful, urgent and brilliantly written. I implore you to read it. - Louise Waite, Professor of Human Geography, University of Leeds, UK Mayblin's book is the first to uncover in great detail the ramifications of the UK's policy of asylum seeker impoverishment on the everyday lives of asylum seekers. Introducing the idea of slow violence she unpicks the multiple harms occasioned by the state against asylum seekers and highlights the role of civil society in offering some amelioration of the state's actions. This book is essential reading for anyone who cares about refugees and asylum seekers: policymakers, practitioners, academics, students and human rights activists. - Jenny Phillimore, Professor of Migration and Superdiversity and Director of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity, University of Birmingham, UK

Unlike the slow violence that pervades this book, any reader concerned with social injustice will be moved to devour this searing text at a fast pace. In a theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich account, Lucy Mayblin shines a light on the logics of differential humanity and purposeful impoverishment that lie at the centre of asylum policy in the UK. This book is compelling, insightful, urgent and brilliantly written. I implore you to read it. -- Louise Waite, Professor of Human Geography, University of Leeds, UK Mayblin's book is the first to uncover in great detail the ramifications of the UK's policy of asylum seeker impoverishment on the everyday lives of asylum seekers. Introducing the idea of slow violence she unpicks the multiple harms occasioned by the state against asylum seekers and highlights the role of civil society in offering some amelioration of the state's actions. This book is essential reading for anyone who cares about refugees and asylum seekers: policymakers, practitioners, academics, students and human rights activists. -- Jenny Phillimore, Professor of Migration and Superdiversity and Director of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity, University of Birmingham, UK

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Lucy Mayblin is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sheffield. She is the author of numerous publications in the field of refugee and migration studies, including the book Asylum After Empire: Colonial Legacies in the Politics of Asylum Seeking (2017), which won the Philip Abrams Memorial Prize from the British Sociological Association.

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