This chapter aims to document otherwise invisible forms of violence and harm that are prolific in women's lives, as well as the broader harms that people seeking asylum face in Britain and other countries with similar punitive approaches to asylum. It focuses on resistance and survival. Since 'naming the state as criminal and exposing the way states work to hide or obscure state perpetrated crimes challenges this denial'. The chapter argues that the same aspects resonate with resisting harm, power and structural or patriarchal violence. It highlightes that gaps in consciousness are embedded in state and organisational responses to refugees with regard to sexual violence, domestic abuse, and ongoing gendered violences in the asylum system. Organisations that have been supporting illegalised immigrants and people seeking asylum, or challenging certain aspects of the asylum system for many years have become …

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on corporate crime discussed in the various chapters of this book. It talks about the shifting dynamics of state-corporate relations, the meaning of a vulnerable corporation, and what it means to be pragmatic and utopian. The book seeks to demonstrate that the corporation cannot be effectively reformed, not through corporate social responsibility (CSR), not through regulation, not through tinkering with structures and functions such as is the stuff of corporate governance. It is emphasized that harm and crime are not marginal but central to corporate activity, generated through corporate personhood, and the techniques and mindsets of 'externalities', the corporation's dehumanising structure of irresponsibility, and its necessarily a-moral, calculative rationality. The book also clarifies how the corporate drive for profits kills, maims and steals from people as a matter of course …