Interview with Jonathan Darling, author of Systems of Suffering: Dispersal and the Denial of Asylum (2022)

Darling, Jonathan; Hughes, Sarah M.

Abstract

This conversation between Jonathan Darling and Sarah M. Hughes focuses on Darling’s recently published book Systems of Suffering: Dispersal and the Denial of Asylum (2022). Based on research conducted over the course of six years, Systems of Suffering examines the emergence, development, and implications of the dispersal system in the UK. This market-based system of asylum governance is a process that distributes asylum seekers to predominantly urban areas and, Darling argues, represents a form of “distributed violence that is cumulative and incapacitating, and governs through the exhaustion of its critics and subjects” (p. 3). As the conversation unfolds, Darling talks about the implications of the rapidly shifting legal and policy landscape in the UK for the asylum dispersal and the challenges but, he suggests, political urgency of continuing to research it.

Citation

Darling, J., & Hughes, S. M. (2024). Interview with Jonathan Darling, author of Systems of Suffering: Dispersal and the Denial of Asylum (2022). Migration and Society, 7(1), 206-213. https://doi.org/10.3167/arms.2024.070117

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: May 1, 2024
• Online Publication Date: Jun 1, 2024
• Publication Date: Jun 1, 2024
• Deposit Date: Dec 16, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 16, 2024
• Journal: Migration and Society
• Print ISSN: 2574-1306
• Electronic ISSN: 2574-1314
• Publisher: Berghahn Journals
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 206-213
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/arms.2024.070117
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3222185