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 the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book argues that the critical criminologists of the 1970s were well aware of racism’s potential as a source of both unity and division among the white working class. It also argues that an adequate understanding of racist crime demands a model of the human subject informed by the empirical evidence that demonstrates that racist mindsets are rarely all-encompassing, absolute, and immutable. The book discusses the relation to both the “community cohesion” and the “respect” agendas that successive governments have failed to understand the needs of young people while treating them as either vehicles for, or targets of, doomed policy initiatives. It shows how the promise of “social inclusion” made to the young British Pakistani men interviewed remained unfulfilled, and how they, their families, and …

Conseguenze delle misure di contrasto dell'immigrazione irregolare sui migranti anche con riferimento ai minori ed ai richiedenti asilo