PROJECT QUESTIONS
Q1: How are accommodation centres and hotels legally regulated, managed, and justified?
Q2: How are accommodation centres and hotels debated and negotiated?
Q3: How does living in, and moving between, hotels and accommodation centres affect asylum seekers?
Q4: How does relocation of asylum seekers from hotels to accommodation centres aect their support networks?
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
The project has the following objectives:
1. To advance ‘peripheralisation’ as a conceptual lens to capture current trends in asylum spatial management;
2. To understand the legal character of asylum accommodation centres and hotels, by documenting how these spaces are legally regulated and managed;
3. To analyse the effects of the use of accommodation centres and hotels on asylum seekers and their support networks, including local authorities and civil society organisations;
4. To make theoretical contributions to the field of camp studies through an attention to the temporal dimension of asylum accommodation spaces as well as the mobility of asylum seekers between them;
5. To support and improve the operational strategies of charity and policy stakeholders advocating for the rights of asylum seekers.
PROJECT METHODS
The achievement of these objectives will be supported by a qualitative investigation of case studies in England, which represent different types of accommodation centres (i.e., military sites, vessels, and hotels) and two moments of change (i.e., relocation and closure of hotels). A focus on sites and moments of change allows for a holistic understanding of both the temporal and spatial dimensions of asylum accommodation.
Methods comprise content analysis (of legal and policy documents, grey literature, and national and local tabloids and broadsheets), and in-depth interviews with a variety of stakeholders, including local authorities’ and charities’ representatives, and migrants who are, or have been, housed in these accommodation sites.
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