All Outputs (55)

Support and Autonomy: Social Workers’ Approaches in Dutch Shelters for Female Survivors of Domestic Violence (2025)
Journal Article
Roegiers Mayeux, C., Saharso, S., Tonkens, E., & Darling, J. (2025). Support and Autonomy: Social Workers’ Approaches in Dutch Shelters for Female Survivors of Domestic Violence. Social Sciences, 14(4), https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci14040241

It is not uncommon that women residing in Dutch shelters following domestic violence consider returning to their partners during the course of their stay. Social workers cannot prohibit return due to the importance of the client’s autonomy, as stated... Read More about Support and Autonomy: Social Workers’ Approaches in Dutch Shelters for Female Survivors of Domestic Violence.

Hotels, refuge, and the rise of carceral hospitality (2025)
Journal Article
Darling, J., & Burridge, A. (online). Hotels, refuge, and the rise of carceral hospitality. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Article e70001. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.70001

Geographical work on hotels has foregrounded their role as spaces of commercial hospitality, leisure, and increasingly as sites of emergency accommodation for a range of displaced groups. Developing such work, this paper critically examines the centr... Read More about Hotels, refuge, and the rise of carceral hospitality.

Interview with Jonathan Darling, author of Systems of Suffering: Dispersal and the Denial of Asylum (2022) (2024)
Journal Article
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

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 Sufferin... Read More about Interview with Jonathan Darling, author of Systems of Suffering: Dispersal and the Denial of Asylum (2022).

Governing through partnership: Strategic migration partnerships and the politics of enrolment and ambivalence (2023)
Journal Article
Darling, J. (2024). Governing through partnership: Strategic migration partnerships and the politics of enrolment and ambivalence. Political Geography, 108, Article 103041. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.103041

This paper examines the role of partnerships in the governance of UK migration policy, considering how partnerships have been mobilised to navigate tensions between multiple state and non-state actors. The paper focuses on the work of regional strate... Read More about Governing through partnership: Strategic migration partnerships and the politics of enrolment and ambivalence.

Institutional Solidarity in The Netherlands: Examining the Role of Dutch Policies in Women with Migration Backgrounds’ Decisions to Leave a Violent Relationship (2023)
Journal Article
Roegiers (Mayeux), C., Saharso, S., Tonkens, E., & Darling, J. (2023). Institutional Solidarity in The Netherlands: Examining the Role of Dutch Policies in Women with Migration Backgrounds’ Decisions to Leave a Violent Relationship. Societies, 13(11), Article 243. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc13110243

In The Netherlands, women who experience domestic violence can rely on public policies that aim to support them, such as shelters. Drawing on the lived experiences, through 10 interviews and observations, of women with different cultural backgrounds... Read More about Institutional Solidarity in The Netherlands: Examining the Role of Dutch Policies in Women with Migration Backgrounds’ Decisions to Leave a Violent Relationship.

Precariousness and the Right to Housing (2022)
Book Chapter
Bolt, G., & Darling, J. (in press). Precariousness and the Right to Housing. In S. Munch, & A. Siede (Eds.), Precarious Housing in Europe: A Critical Guide (11-35). Donatau Press

Systems of Suffering: Dispersal and the Denial of Asylum (2022)
Book
Darling, J. (2022). Systems of Suffering: Dispersal and the Denial of Asylum. Pluto Press

The In-Between Spaces of Asylum and Migration: A Participatory Visual Approach (2022)
Journal Article
Till, K. E., Gill, N., Jacobsen, M. H., Darling, J., & O’Reilly, Z. (2022). The In-Between Spaces of Asylum and Migration: A Participatory Visual Approach. The AAG Review of Books, 10(2), 41-50. https://doi.org/10.1080/2325548x.2022.2036549

The politics of discretion: authority and influence in asylum dispersal (2021)
Journal Article
Darling, J. (2022). The politics of discretion: authority and influence in asylum dispersal. Political Geography, 94, Article 102560. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102560

This paper considers how discretion, understood as both a capacity to make decisions and a form of influence that is often hidden, operates within the accommodation and support of asylum seekers. Combining critical discussions of discretion with acco... Read More about The politics of discretion: authority and influence in asylum dispersal.

The Cautious Politics of “Humanizing” Refugee Research (2021)
Journal Article
Darling, J. (2021). The Cautious Politics of “Humanizing” Refugee Research. Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, 37(2), 56-62. https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.40798

In this intervention, I reflect on what it may mean to ‘humanize’ refugee research. The assumption often made is that ‘humanizing’ can arise through a concern with the particularity of the individual, through drawing from ‘the mass’ the narrative of... Read More about The Cautious Politics of “Humanizing” Refugee Research.

Research Ethics for Human Geography: A Handbook for Students (2020)
Book
Wilson, H. F., & Darling, J. (Eds.). (2020). Research Ethics for Human Geography: A Handbook for Students. SAGE Publications

Refugee urbanism: seeing asylum ‘like a city’ (2020)
Journal Article
Darling, J. (2021). Refugee urbanism: seeing asylum ‘like a city’. Urban Geography, 42(7), 894-914. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2020.1763611

This paper explores how asylum might be understood from an urban perspective. The paper focuses on a range of conceptual interventions mobilized around the notion of ‘seeing like a city’, which foreground the pragmatic and compositional nature of urb... Read More about Refugee urbanism: seeing asylum ‘like a city’.

Geography and Ethics (2020)
Book Chapter
Darling, J., & Wilson, H. (in press). Geography and Ethics. In H. Wilson, & J. Darling (Eds.), Research Ethics for Human Geography: A Handbook for Students (6-22). SAGE Publications

Expectations (2020)
Book Chapter
Darling, J. (in press). Expectations. In H. Wilson, & J. Darling (Eds.), Research Ethics for Human Geography: A Handbook for Students (73-81). SAGE Publications

Vulnerable Subjects (2020)
Book Chapter
Darling, J. (in press). Vulnerable Subjects. In H. Wilson, & J. Darling (Eds.), Research Ethics for Human Geography: A Handbook for Students (159-169). SAGE Publications

Out-sourcing refuge: distance, deferral, and immunity in the urban governance of refugees (2020)
Book Chapter
Darling, J. (2020). Out-sourcing refuge: distance, deferral, and immunity in the urban governance of refugees. In S. Pasquetti, & R. Sanyal (Eds.), Displacement: global conversations on refuge. Manchester University Press

‘Another politics of the city’: Urban practices of refuge, advocacy and activism (2020)
Book Chapter
Darling, J. (2020). ‘Another politics of the city’: Urban practices of refuge, advocacy and activism. In E. Cox, S. Durrant, D. Farrier, L. Stonebridge, & A. Wooley (Eds.), Refugee Imaginaries: Research Across the Humanities (554-570). University of Edinburgh Press

Hosting the displaced: from sanctuary cities to hospitable homes (2020)
Book Chapter
Darling, J. (in press). Hosting the displaced: from sanctuary cities to hospitable homes. In P. Adey, J. Bowstead, K. Brickell, V. Desai, M. Dolton, A. Pinkerton, & A. Siddiqi (Eds.), The Handbook of Displacement. Palgrave Macmillan

Introduction: rescaling migration, citizenship, and rights (2019)
Book Chapter
Darling, J., & Bauder, H. (2019). Introduction: rescaling migration, citizenship, and rights. In J. Darling, & H. Bauder (Eds.), Sanctuary Cities and Urban Struggles: Rescaling Migration, Citizenship, and Rights. University of Manchester Press

Sanctuary, presence, and the politics of urbanism. (2019)
Book Chapter
Darling, J. (2019). Sanctuary, presence, and the politics of urbanism. In J. Darling, & H. Bauder (Eds.), Sanctuary Cities and Urban Struggles: Rescaling Migration, Citizenship, and Rights. Manchester University Press