All Outputs (2)

Torture and the UK’s ‘War on Asylum’: Medical Power and the Culture of Disbelief (2019)
Book Chapter
Bhatia, M., & Burnett, J. (2019). Torture and the UK’s ‘War on Asylum’: Medical Power and the Culture of Disbelief. In F. Perocco (Ed.), Tortura e migrazioni | Torture and Migration (161-179). Venice: Edizioni Ca’Foscari. https://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-358-8/007

This chapter explores medical power in the UK’s ‘war on asylum’, examining how medical expertise has been undermined in the asylum process when this expertise is utilised to add weight to asylum seekers’ claims to have experienced torture. It examine... Read More about Torture and the UK’s ‘War on Asylum’: Medical Power and the Culture of Disbelief.

Towards a Political Economy of Charging Regimes: Fines, Fees and Force in UK Immigration Control (2019)
Journal Article
Burnett, J., & Chebe, F. (2020). Towards a Political Economy of Charging Regimes: Fines, Fees and Force in UK Immigration Control. The British journal of criminology, 60(3), 579-599. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azz070

Charging regimes and the extraction of revenue are integral components of immigration control in the United Kingdom. However, while these have been analysed in their individual guises, to date, there has been little substantive analysis bringing thes... Read More about Towards a Political Economy of Charging Regimes: Fines, Fees and Force in UK Immigration Control.