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Gendered harm and structural violence in the British asylum system / Victoria Canning.
Van Pelt Library HV6250.4.W65 C355 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Canning, Victoria, author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in criminal justice, borders and citizenship ; 9.
- Routledge studies in criminal justice, borders and citizenship ; 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Violence against--Great Britain.
- Women.
- Political refugees--Great Britain.
- Political refugees.
- Power (Social sciences)--Great Britain.
- Power (Social sciences).
- Women--Violence against.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 193 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781138854659
- 1138854654
- OCLC:
- 957241980
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