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...

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. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdx4rrrvg8do

📢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...

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/...

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

Read @jonnydarling.bsky.social's latest thoughts on #asylum housing, from @theconversation.com @geogdurham.bsky.social

Asylum housing needs to come back under public control.

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...

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...

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"

Happy to share this piece on ethnography in political science: doi.org/10.1017/S153...

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/...

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

Important new book! Immigration Detention Inc. The Big Business of Locking up Migrants by @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social and @drdconlon.bsky.social Buy it here: www.plutobooks.com/978074534946...

Read more from @jonnydarling.bsky.social on asylum hotels & carceral hospitality in his recently co-authored Transactions paper: doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

📢June Issue of Area📢 This latest issue pulls together the fully #OpenAccess 'Rivers as Borders' Special Section alongside papers on topics including de-development, AI, and diary methods. Read all the papers here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754762... #geosky

A short piece from me looking at the politics of 'asylum hotels' in Britain and the challenges for government in finding alternatives @geogdurham.bsky.social

Good to see Durham Geography's Helen F Wilson on urban kittiwakes and coexistence in today's Guardian! @geogdurham.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This #RefugeeWeek, NACCOM and ‪@homelesslink.bsky.social‬ are sending a clear signal that the immigration and asylum systems are a direct cause of homelessness. In our new blog, we outline our key recommendations to improve the move-on process. Find out more: