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Jonny Darling

@jonnydarling.bsky.social
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Urban and political geographer, Durham University. Trustee @naccomnetwork.bsky.social‬. Author of Systems of Suffering: Dispersal and the Denial of Asylum (Pluto Press).

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Homeless Link @homelesslink.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
✅ Charities and local authorities are leading the way on preventing refugee homelessness ❌ But their efforts are being undermined by Home Office asylum policy. 📖Key findings of our new joint Moving Forward report with @naccomnetwork.bsky.social Read more 👇 homeless.org.uk/news/local-e...
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Refugee Action @refugeeaction.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The housing emergency has created an expensive, poor quality and divisive asylum accommodation system. So 51 organisations have written to Andy Burnham to tell him he already has the answers to housing all people in need. Our letter is on his desk. bit.ly/4fRRMHw
Image of Andy Burnham in a a suit standing next to large text addressing him. The text says:
Dear Andy Burnham, 
You say Britain needs more social housing.  
You say communities need more local power. 
You say public services should be for the public, not profits.
We say, don't discriminate and apply these principles to all people, including people seeking safety.  
51 organisations have written to you. 
The letter is on your desk.
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Durham University @durham.ac.uk · 11/08/2026
What needs to change for UK immigration policies to succeed? @jonnydarling.bsky.social of @geogdurham.bsky.social shares his perspective on asylum accommodation, local authority involvement & the right to work in this analysis for @uk.theconversation.com Read more:👉 tinyurl.com/2j5rkha3
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Jonny Darling @jonnydarling.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Contributed some thoughts on how Burnham's purported pragmatism could usefully impact asylum policy for this forum - focusing on insourcing asylum accommodation and extending the right to work @geogdurham.bsky.social theconversation.com/should-andy-...
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Should Andy Burnham be ‘relentless’ on small boat crossings? Experts react
Pressure is mounting on Andy Burnham to address small boat crossings into the UK.
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Anna Secor @ajsecor.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Feel like reality itself is under attack? Wondering how fantasy-geopolitics has taken hold and how to fight it? You might find some ideas in my recent article!
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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Ethics and Planetary Boundaries is now out in the world! Our Open-Access(!!), interdisciplinary book with Cambridge University Press has two chapters on each of the planetary boundaries. Read it here now: www.cambridge.org/core/books/e... #PlanetaryBoundaries #Ethics
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Ethics and Planetary Boundaries
Cambridge Core - Environmental Policy, Economics and Law - Ethics and Planetary Boundaries
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RGS-IBG Higher Ed @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Check out this month’s highlights for a snapshot of research published across our journals in June👇 GJ - Wilson et al.: ow.ly/YJhw50ZjxJz GEO - Uribe-Albornoz & Talbot: ow.ly/UEgi50ZjxJL TIBG - Jeffrey et al.: ow.ly/s2Y450ZjxKl AREA - Yu et al.: ow.ly/R6LO50Zjx2v
Seabirds perched and nesting on a multi-level urban structure designed as a seabird hotel for avian habitat experiments.A high-altitude Colombian páramo landscape featuring rugged mountains, a reflective water body, and native vegetation under a partly cloudy sky.Young woman reading a book in a library aisle filled with books, while a man uses his phone in the background.Two elderly men practicing Tai Chi in a park surrounded by trees and paved paths.
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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
New in TIBG: 'Lively transgressions at the urban-ocean edge: Conflict, coexistence and animals on the move' by Leah Gibbs & @helenfwilson.bsky.social This paper draws on case studies of urban gulls in Northern Europe & sharks at Australian city beaches. doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
The paper intervenes in recent debates on human–wildlife conflict and ‘Species on the Move’, drawing on cases of urban gulls in Northern Europe and sharks at Australian city beaches. The paper interr...
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
@JonnyDarling.bsky.social (Durham University) joins our #RefugeeWeek panel on migration, borders and urban politics. He'll discuss the role cities play in migration practices, and his new book Taking back control. 📅 15 June, Online | 12.30–2pm (BST) Register: bit.ly/3S5c9HE
Promotional image for Jonathan Darling's appearance on MUP's Refugee Week panel.
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Jonny Darling @jonnydarling.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Some incredibly timely, if depressing, reading for the week ahead from @trillingual.bsky.social
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Institute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org · 11/06/2026
🚨 | NEW REPORT: No one should be pushed into homelessness after leaving asylum accommodation. Ministers must act now to prevent a repeat of the 2023 spike - with enough notice, earlier council data and practical move-on support. 🔗 www.ippr.org/articles/clo...
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
What does it mean to be a migrant in an increasingly closed and anxious world? Join our #RefugeeWeek 2026 panel on borders, belonging and justice in Europe, with Michelle Pace, Mark Rainey and @jonnydarling.bsky.social. 📅 15 June, 12:30-2pm BST 💻 Online 👉 Register here: bit.ly/43ozHK5
Image promoting the MUP Borders, Belonging and Justice Panel for Refugee Week 2026. Purple background. White MUP logo in top right corner. White text reads: Borders, Belonging and Justice Panel, with Michelle Pace, Mark Rainey and Jonathan Darling. Chaired by Dawn Chatty and Frowin Rausis. Monday June 15th, 12:30-2pm, Online (Microsoft Teams) Refugee Week logo.
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Happy International Workers' Day to all comrades! To celebrate, we're offering 50% off ALL BOOKS until the 14th. We publish books that defy capitalism and all the exploitation it brings. One day, we will be free. Until then, keep reading! www.plutobooks.com
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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
If you have any tips or resources for best practice when writing alt text in academic publications, please share them below. We'd love to hear from you as we compile our guidelines for authors.
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Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgs.org · 15/04/2026
Every year, the Editors of the RGS-IBG Area journal award the Area Prize for the best paper written by an early-career scholar, in recognition of excellent geographical scholarship. Our congratulations to the 2025 winner, Madelaine Joyce 👏 Find out more and read the full paper ⬇️
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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Absolutely agree! There are amazing early career geographers pushing the discipline forward and it is brilliant that they see Area as a place for their work. BIG CONGRATULATIONS to this years winner and those highly commended!
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Jonny Darling @jonnydarling.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Reading for the Area Prize each spring is a really lovely opportunity to engage with all the amazing early career work being produced across the discipline and that @areajournal.bsky.social is proud to publish. Well done to Maddie, Stefano, and Rosie on their excellent papers! @rgs.org
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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
🏆Area Prize Announcement!🏆 This year's Area Prize for the best paper written by an ECR has been awarded to 𝐌𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐉𝐨𝐲𝐜𝐞 for her paper 'Sensing the sky's edge: Atmospheric insights into the Korean demilitarised zone' ⬇️ doi.org/10.1111/area... @maddiejoyce.bsky.social @rhulgeography.bsky.social
Screenshot of the 2025 Area Prize-winner announcement: 

Madelaine Joyce (Royal Holloway University of London, UK)
“Sensing the sky’s edge: Atmospheric insights into the Korean demilitarised zone”

With this innovative article, Madelaine Joyce pushes cultural and political geographers to attend closely and creatively to both affective and material atmospheres. Taking the anticipation of an encounter with the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea as both prompt and problematic for rethinking borders across fog, radio signals, and no-go zones, Joyce’s article is a deserving Area Prize winner.
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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The editors also recognised two highly commended authors: Stefano Pagin for his co-authored paper with Daniel Sanfelici: 'Bringing nuance to real estate financialisation: Insights from Brazil' ⬇️ doi.org/10.1111/area... @uniofleicester.bsky.social
Screenshot of a highly commended paper in the 2025 Area Prize: 

Stefano Pagin (University of Leicester, UK)
“Bringing nuance to real estate financialisation: Insights from Brazil”

In this carefully argued article, Stefano Pagin and Daniel Sanfelici examine how institutions take shape within, and most importantly give shape to, the financialisation of real estate. The piece shows both the utility of broader political economic thought and cautions against overextending its analytical reach. It convincingly argues that contextualising financialisation in particular places enables it to be seen as one of many logics shaping urban geographies, making a significant contribution to thinking from and with the Global South.
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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
& Rosie Knowles for her paper 'Narrating health and well-being with vulnerable participants: The ethics of composite fiction as a creative method in health geographies' ⬇️ doi.org/10.1111/area... @livunigeog.bsky.social
Screenshot of a highly commended paper in the 2025 Area Prize: 

Rosie Knowles (University of Liverpool, UK)
“Narrating health and well-being with vulnerable participants: The ethics of composite fiction as a creative method in health geographies”
Area, 58(1), e70042
This impactful article by Rosie Knowles pushes health geographers towards a more sustained engagement with how composite fiction can be assembled ethically and rigorously. Reflecting on what it means to tell stories together and to build collective reflection into accounts of health geography, Knowles’ paper offers a creative and insightful methodological contribution.
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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
We are looking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Human Geography with expertise in the field of Health Geography that will complement and extend current work in our Geographies of Life research cluster. Application deadline May 10th, further details here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Assistant Professor in Human Geography
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The July 14th publication date of FinTech Capital is fast approaching ...
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Jonny Darling @jonnydarling.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Great day at the @naccomnetwork.bsky.social annual conference, an important reminder of all the amazing work underway across the UK to end destitution and support migrants' rights
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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Now book-cover-official! Coming this September: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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NACCOM @naccomnetwork.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Our response to the swathe of asylum reforms announced by the government over the past week naccom.org.uk/asylum-refor...
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Asylum reforms likely to increase homelessness - NACCOM
At NACCOM, our vision is for a fair, just and humane asylum and immigration system that eliminates destitution and allows people to live with dignity and agency. Not only is this the right thing to [....
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
🍂 Our Autumn/Winter Trade Catalogue has arrived! Discover the new non-fiction we're publishing Sept 2026 - Feb 2027. New books from @tajali1.bsky.social, @davehaslam.bsky.social, @emilygarside.bsky.social, @jonnydarling.bsky.social & more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/catalogues/ #booksky
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
🚨DISASTER BRITAIN! 🚨 40% off select books on privatisation, securitisation, neoliberalism and decay. www.plutobooks.com/disaster-bri...
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
As borders multiply, so too must resistance. This reading list is an invitation to imagine a world beyond the violence of borders, and organize for a future where people are free to move: www.plutobooks.com/abolish-the-border-regime-a-reading-list/
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Abolish the Border Regime - A reading list - Pluto Press
As borders multiply, so too must resistance. Borders are not neutral lines: they are weapons that extend colonial violence under the guise of security. In Minnesota, people are standing up to ICE, and...
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Scottish Refugee Council @scotrefugeecouncil.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
"The power of the Glasgow welcome has not diminished" An uplifting piece on hope and community 🧡 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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‘The response is a beautiful thing’: how Glasgow is squaring up to Reform
In the face of Nigel Farage, flag-waving and a longstanding housing crisis, some Glaswegians are taking on anti-immigration rhetoric
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Jeremy Schmidt @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Thanks to everyone who has helped make this a great year for @areajournal.bsky.social! Authors, reviewers, and our intrepid managing editor! Cc @jonnydarling.bsky.social
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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
📢December Issue of Area📢 This issue features Special Sections on 'Gender & Rewilding' and 'Participatory Historical Geographies' alongside papers on topics from Tibetan pastoralist perceptions of the pandemic to research methods for legal geography ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754762...
A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are seven tiles with the names of papers in a Special Section titled 'Gender and Rewilding'. The papers are: 

1) Gender and Rewilding: Introduction to the Special Section
Nadia Bartolini

2) Rewilding: An emotional nature
Sophie Wynne-Jones

3) Gendered, embodied knowledge within a Welsh agricultural context and the importance of listening to farmers in the rewilding debate
Ffion Jones

4) Rewilding, gender and the transformation of the Côa Valley
Nadia Bartolini,  Bárbara Carvalho,  Sarah May

5) ‘A canary is supposed to sit in a cage and look at someone else's happiness’: Domestic rewilding in fin-de-siècle St Petersburg
Olga Petri

6) The politics of rewilding through an ecofeminist lens
Sherilyn MacGregor

7) Rewilding Gender: Towards Relational Understandings of ‘the Wild’
Kim Ward
A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with the names of papers in the issue. The papers are: 

1) Unravelling uneven livelihood transformations in China's multi-ethnic Southeast Asian borderland: Perspectives from spatial interactions
Xiaobo Hua,  Renshan Luo

2) Milk from the farm, the factory and the future: An ecofeminist reflection on Aotearoa New Zealand's dairy sector
Milena Bojovic

3) Research methods for legal geography
Francesco Chiodelli

4) Changing jobs, changing landscapes: Do land use patterns reflect occupational shifts?
Armina Aktara,  Manash Jyoti Bhuyan

5) Displaced attention: Bergson, attentive habits and Tony Conrad's drone music
George Burdon

6) What does geography look like?
Robert Shaw

7) Multispecies placemaking: Tibetan pastoralist perceptions of the COVID-19 pandemic
Tsering Bum,  Shuling Cheng

8) A mixed-methods approach to researching extreme heat: Insights from urban Ghana
Katherine V. Gough,  Ben M. Roberts,  Ebenezer Forkuo Amankwaa,  Karim Abdullah,  Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe,  Ronald Reagan Gyimah,  Raymond Kasei,  Kevin J. Lomas,  Frederick Wireko Manu,  Peter Mensah,  Eftychia Spentzou,  Robert L. Wilby

9) Climate change sensing across work and home: A research diary experiment
Febe De Geest,  Carolina Contreras,  Todd Denham,  Patrick Bonney,  Ashleigh Stokes,  Blanche Verlie,  Oluwadunsin Ajulo,  Lauren RickardsA graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are eight tiles with the names of papers in a Special Section titled 'Participatory historical geographies'. The papers are: 

1) Participatory historical geographies: Introduction
Ruth Slatter,  Edward Brookes

2) The Victoria County History and participatory historical geography
Ruth Slatter

3) Mapping entangled mobilities: Using participatory historical geography to explore the migration of objects and people across (neo)colonial spatialities
Sarah Linn,  Jina Lee,  Mariam Zorba,  Caitlin Nunn,  Jennifer Cromwell

4) Dancing in the archive: Bodily encounters, memory, and more-than-representational participatory historical geographies
Lucy Thompson

5) Youth-led theatre for climate resilience and action at COP26
Kate Smith,  Briony McDonagh,  Sukhmandeep Dhillon

6) Participatory collaborations between geographers and performance artists: Taking urban renewal histories to the street
Aled Singleton,  Edward Brookes,  Ruth Slatter

7) Watery archives: Reflections on doing participatory archival research for climate action and audience engagement
Hannah Worthen,  Claire Weatherall

8) ‘A series of abject failures’: Navigating the pitfalls of place-based participatory histories
Juliette DesportesA graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are five tiles with the names three commentaries and two 'Ethics in/or geographical research' papers. The papers are: 

1) ‘Good farming’ in a polycrisis: What could arts-led research offer?
Agatha Herman,  Liz Roberts

2) Reflecting on the restless volumetric place (re)naming race
Sergei Basik

3) The architecture of whiteness
Rhianna Garrett

4) Ethical mediation: Navigating research ethics and frictions in overseas fieldwork
Sandra Hiari,  Maiss Razem

5) Questions of power and ethics: Doing feminist research in methodological contexts that let the body lead
Gabriel Baker
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NACCOM @naccomnetwork.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Refugee homelessness in UK has more than doubled in two years, charity says
Naccom members accommodated record 4,434 refugees and migrants in 2024-25 but could not house another 3,450
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Nando Sigona @nandosigona.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Spoke to Greek newspaper @tovimagr.bsky.social about #UK asylum and immigration proposals and how they may impact non-citizens already in the UK tovima.com/world/reforms-will-make-peoples-lives-miserable-academic-warns-as-uk-moves-toward-new-asylum-model/
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Reforms Will ‘Make People's Lives Miserable’, Academic Warns, as UK Moves Toward New Asylum Model - tovima.com
Asylum debate shifts to the right – asylum seekers and refugees are being labelled as criminals
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
In "Occupied Refuge," @hannobrankamp.bsky.social challenges the view of refugee camps as indispensable safe havens, showing that humanitarian missions often function as militarized occupations that treat camp inhabitants as colonized subjects. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/IwyWW8p
Cover of Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya by Hanno Brankamp. The cover features a black-and-white photograph of a refugee camp with small structures that have corrugated metal roofs. In the foreground, a dirt ground stretches across the image with people walking, sitting, and standing near a vehicle. A vertical yellow line runs from top to bottom, dividing the composition. The title and subtitle appear in white text on the left side of the cover, with the author's name at the bottom right.
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 20/11/2025
People who have been recognised as needing humanitarian protection will be under constant review.
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UK to overhaul asylum policy – will the new measures work?
People who have been recognised as needing humanitarian protection will be under constant review.
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Jonny Darling @jonnydarling.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Commentary on govt proposals to further restrict refugee protection, expand removals, and limit support. Talking tough will not fix govt failures on asylum, but it will hinder integration, cause harm, and further drive resentment towards those seeking protection theconversation.com/uk-to-overha...
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UK to overhaul asylum policy – will the new measures work?
People who have been recognised as needing humanitarian protection will be under constant review.
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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
New in TIBG: 'Asylum as artifice: Race, law and capital as regimes of abstractions in the United Kingdom's asylum accommodation system' by Anna Pearce This paper charts the history of the category of 'asylum seeker' from 1993 to 2023. doi.org/10.1111/tran...
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Anna Pearce (2025) entitled: 'Asylum as Artifice: Race, Law and Capital as Regimes of Abstraction in the United Kingdom's Asylum Accommodation System' with a red banner at the top.

Taking as its case study the category of the ‘asylum seeker’ in UK law, this paper develops on latent concerns in legal geographies with processes of abstraction. Following Bhandar and Toscano, race, law and capital are here understood as different, co-articulating modalities of abstraction, through which the ‘asylum seeker’ is constituted and reconstituted by spatial practice and law over time. The case study charts the history of the category in UK law with the corresponding developments in the material and spatial infrastructures of asylum accommodation, from the point at which the ‘asylum seeker’ was first codified in UK law in 1993 to the delegitimisation of asylum itself in the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 and the Illegal Migration Act 2023. As well as providing the application of Bhandar and Toscano's innovative methodology to a new empirical area, I further make the case that, as well as functioning as organisational nodes for race and capital, legal objects may also serve as conduits. In this way, these differing regimes of abstraction are put into mutually influential relationships with one another, with particularly concerning implications for the independence of law from capital. Though the case study and its legislative context are necessarily narrow in order to properly trace the contours of this particular legal object, the potential application of the theoretical arguments developed from this tight focus is broad, contributing to studies of immigration law, asylum reception and processing, as well as legal geographies more widely.
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Jonny Darling @jonnydarling.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Timely and critical Home Affairs Committee report on asylum accommodation noting failures over costs, safeguarding, and conditions. Disappointing the report stops short of proposing an overhaul and remains accepting of mass accommodation sites as a feasible model: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Home Office squandered billions on ‘failed and chaotic’ asylum accommodation
Commons committee describes successive governments’ failures to manage hotel use, contracts, spending and safeguarding
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Refugee Action @refugeeaction.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
This plan for housing is: - Better for people seeking asylum - Better for wider communities - Cheaper for the taxpayer Let’s use public money to buy quality homes for all people in our communities – not to fill the pockets of the mega wealthy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdx4rrr…
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Britain's asylum hotels problem - and the bold idea to solve it
Instead of using private contractors to provide hotel rooms to asylum seekers, could paying councils to buy more properties be the solution?
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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
📢September Issue of Area📢 Our latest issue features an editorial from our new team, a Special Section on 'Gentle Geographies', and a discussion forum on #OpenAccess book publishing. Available to read here ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754762...
A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are seven tiles with the names of papers in a Special Section titled 'Gentle Geographies', and an editorial. The papers are: 

1) Areas of opportunity
Jeremy J. Schmidt,  Mary Lawhon,  Jonathan Darling,  Eli D. Lazarus
2) Editorial: Towards more gentle geographies: Narrating a virtue turn, and possibilities for multi-tonal politics of activism and academic labour
Matt Finn,  Jayne M. Jeffries
3) The quiet politics and gentle literary activism behind the battle for Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument
Laura Smith
4) Power in numbers/Power and numbers: Gentle data activism as strategic collaboration
Jonathan Cinnamon
5) For diffident geographies and modest activisms: Questioning the ANYTHING-BUT-GENTLE academy
John Horton
6) Treading carefully through tomatoes: Embodying a gentle methodological approach
Laura Pottinger
7) CoPSE: A methodological intervention towards gentle more-than-human relations
Suzanne HocknellA graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are eight tiles with the names of papers in the issue. The papers are: 

1) ‘What is visible… and what isn't’: A public art intervention for re-imagining the food system
Ekaterina Gladkova,  Naho Matsuda
2) Reimagining the streetscapes of Varanasi city: Public art, urban regeneration and smart city practices
Iman Banerjee,  Amrita Bajaj,  Apala Saha
3) It takes a team to participate – Refining working participant observations through multiple researchers
Maria Thulemark,  Susanna Heldt-Cassel,  Tara Duncan
4) Right-sizing the smart city in Southeast Asia
Prerona Das,  Orlando Woods,  Lily Kong
5) The role of virtual field trips in Geography higher education: A perspective paper
Elizabeth R. Hurrell,  Simon M. Hutchinson,  Lynda Yorke,  Lesley C. Batty,  M. Jane Bunting,  Dan Swanton,  Derek A. McDougall,  Daniel R. Parsons
6) Is the spatial persistence of deprivation dependent on neighbouring areas?
Stephen D. Clark,  Fran Pontin,  Paul Norman
7) ‘Backward geographies’: Contested lives and livelihoods in the tea plantation enclaves of South Asia
Suranjan Majumder
8) On the forms of borderwork in public institutions: Bordering social security through conditions and tests
Kathryn Cassidy,  Gill Davidson
9) Navigating inequalities and shaping aspirations: The role of supplementary education in low-income immigrant youth's transition to selective secondary school
Lara LandoltA graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with the names of papers in a Special Section titled 'Open Access Book Publishing: A Forum for Debate' and three 'Ethics in/of Geographical Research' papers.  The papers are: 

1) ‘The city is not for us’: Ethics, everyday sexism, and negotiating unwanted encounters during fieldwork
Morag Rose
2) Participation, inclusion and reflexivity in multi-step (focus) group discussions
Marina Korzenevica,  Engdasew Feleke Lemma,  Catherine Fallon Grasham,  Khonker Taskin Anmol,  Daniel Ekai Esukuku,  Fahreen Hossain,  Mercy Mbithe Musyoka,  Saskia Nowicki,  Dalmas Ochieng Omia,  Salome A. Bukachi
3) The ‘creative thesis’ in the academic ‘anxiety machine’
Angela Last
4) Against book enclosures: Moving towards more diverse, humane and accessible book publishing
Simon P. J. Batterbury,  Andrea E. Pia,  Gerda Wielander,  Nicholas Loubere
5) Uneven geographies of power in UK higher education's conjunctural crisis: A response to Gandy
Julie Cupples
6) Beyond open access: Book publishing in a metric culture
Clancy Wilmott
7) Gandy & 'Books under threat': A response
Frank Houghton
8) Challenges and opportunities for open access book publishing: A perspective from a society publisher in the geosciences
Jenny Lunn,  Kate Lajtha
9) Ex Libris: Books, creativity and academic freedom
Matthew Gandy
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Agenda Publishing @agendapub.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Just arrived: Debt Trap Nation by @kbrickell.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki “A compelling call to action... shows how reimagining policy could deliver economic justice.” - @nicolajanesharp.bsky.social Author royalties will be donated to @seacharity.bsky.social www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...
Photo of a pile of books. The books are 'Debt Trap Nation' by Katherine Brickell and Mel Nowicki. Cover image features a woman and small child in a deep concrete basin or pit with no way of climbing out as the ladder is too short.
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Asylum Matters @asylummatters.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
The last Government's failed experiment in asylum camps cost the taxpayer millions, all while traumatising and isolating torture survivors. Now, Keir Starmer wants to return to this cruel and wasteful plan. We can't go back. #CommunitiesNotCamps
bigissue.com
Why confining asylum seekers to military barracks is especially cruel
Housing asylum seekers in military barracks could cause significant damage, explains Freedom from Torture's Ann Saltar.
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Durham University @durham.ac.uk · 16/09/2025
Read @jonnydarling.bsky.social's latest thoughts on #asylum housing, from @theconversation.com @geogdurham.bsky.social
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 12/09/2025
Asylum housing needs to come back under public control.
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After the Epping Forest case, the government needs to be bold and build asylum housing that works
Asylum housing needs to come back under public control.
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Jonny Darling @jonnydarling.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Commentary on asylum hotels considering how govt can develop dignified community-based housing that meets multiple social needs. Warehousing people in camps and continuing a failed experiment in privatisation causes nothing but further harm @geogdurham.bsky.social theconversation.com/after-the-ep...
theconversation.com
After the Epping Forest case, the government needs to be bold and build asylum housing that works
Asylum housing needs to come back under public control.
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Jonny Darling @jonnydarling.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
It shouldn't need saying that 'military and industrial sites' are not, and never have been, 'more appropriate sites' for asylum seekers. The record of such carceral accommodation is nothing but spectacles of harm designed to appease a desire to punish refugees. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
theguardian.com
Cooper suggests asylum seekers could be moved into warehouses instead of hotels – UK politics live
Home secretary says government aims to ‘shrink the whole asylum system’ and is looking at ‘military and industrial sites’
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Sarah M. Hughes @sarahhughes90.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Really happy to see this out "Theorising legal gaps geographically: Exploring the transition from asylum seeker to refugee in the UK"
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
When a positive decision is granted on an asylum claim, a new refugee has limited time before their existing government support (housing, finance) terminates. This transition between legal is various...
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Olga Demetriou @olgademetriou.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Happy to share this piece on ethnography in political science: doi.org/10.1017/S153...
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Varieties of Political Ethnography: Caring for the Far Right? | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
Varieties of Political Ethnography: Caring for the Far Right?
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Jonny Darling @jonnydarling.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I was on BBC’s AntiSocial at the end of last week discussing the growth of asylum hotels in Britain, the history of dispersal, and the importance of community-based housing for asylum seekers (at the 40min mark) @geogdurham.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
bbc.co.uk
AntiSocial - Asylum hotels - BBC Sounds
Protestors outside asylum hotels say they fear for the safety of women and children.
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Jonny Darling @jonnydarling.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Perfectly timed for summer reading, new book from two of my wonderful @geogdurham.bsky.social colleagues: @ajsecor.bsky.social and @benandersongeog.bsky.social. Also perfectly timed for navigating the turbulent cultural politics of the present (coffee strictly optional) @goldsmithspress.bsky.social
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