Restless justice
Amid the global migration crisis, the UK has created an increasingly hostile environment for people seeking asylum that has pushed many into unnecessary hardship and homelessness. This book offers a politically engaged ethnographic account of emergency night shelters for refused male asylum seekers...
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| description | Amid the global migration crisis, the UK has created an increasingly hostile environment for people seeking asylum that has pushed many into unnecessary hardship and homelessness. This book offers a politically engaged ethnographic account of emergency night shelters for refused male asylum seekers and refugees in Manchester, UK. The shelters are operated by the Boaz Trust, a local faith-based organisation, and are located in churches across the city. They are at once sites of displacement, on the fringes of public life and society while also being focal points of community activity formed in response to the injustices of the UK asylum system. This ethnography firstly offers insight into the day-to-day lives of the men who stayed in the shelters as they experience homelessness and legal and social uncertainty on account of their immigration status. It argues that a weaponised time sits alongside dispersal, denial and destitution as a key pillar of the UK asylum system. These serve less as deterrents and more as forms of punishment for the very act of seeking sanctuary in the UK. The book also turns to the Boaz Trust and the volunteers who work in the shelters. It suggests that the organisation and churches are not merely service providers but also offer a faith-based counternarrative to the inhumanity of the asylum system. They are putting into practice a ‘restless justice’ through everyday acts of care and love, at a community level, in the face of often cruel national policy. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1740072026-06-15T06:05:21Z Restless justice Rainey, Mark Justin Rainey, Mark Asylum Refugees Ethnography Manchester United Kingdom Justice Faith-based organisations Homelessness Volunteering Borders Asylum seekers Street Waiting Placelessness Time Temporality Destitution Immigration Differential inclusion Asylum policy Emotions Participant observation Faith Hostile environment Faith-based organisation Charity Night shelters Eschatology Asylum seeker Policy Love Bureaucracy Mourning Weaponised time thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFD Housing and homelessness thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFG Refugees and political asylum thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFC Poverty and precarity Amid the global migration crisis, the UK has created an increasingly hostile environment for people seeking asylum that has pushed many into unnecessary hardship and homelessness. This book offers a politically engaged ethnographic account of emergency night shelters for refused male asylum seekers and refugees in Manchester, UK. The shelters are operated by the Boaz Trust, a local faith-based organisation, and are located in churches across the city. They are at once sites of displacement, on the fringes of public life and society while also being focal points of community activity formed in response to the injustices of the UK asylum system. This ethnography firstly offers insight into the day-to-day lives of the men who stayed in the shelters as they experience homelessness and legal and social uncertainty on account of their immigration status. It argues that a weaponised time sits alongside dispersal, denial and destitution as a key pillar of the UK asylum system. These serve less as deterrents and more as forms of punishment for the very act of seeking sanctuary in the UK. The book also turns to the Boaz Trust and the volunteers who work in the shelters. It suggests that the organisation and churches are not merely service providers but also offer a faith-based counternarrative to the inhumanity of the asylum system. They are putting into practice a ‘restless justice’ through everyday acts of care and love, at a community level, in the face of often cruel national policy. 2026-03-19T14:36:54Z 2026-03-19T14:36:54Z 2026-03-06T14:23:03Z 2026 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/111266 9781526145550 9781526145543 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/174007 eng New Ethnographies open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/111266/1/9781526145550.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/111266/1/9781526145550.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/111266/1/9781526145550.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/111266/1/9781526145550.pdf Manchester University Press 10.7765/9781526145550 10.7765/9781526145550 bcb4ab08-c525-4e6c-88e5-a0cf0a175533 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 9781526145550 9781526145543 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2025 139 Manchester open access |
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