This paper considers United Kingdom welfare provision for asylum seekers in the context of social protection scholarship and policy discourse more commonly associated with international development. Social protection definitions are contested, ranging from those focused on state provision to...

"This book combines historical and geographical analysis of the direct provision asylum system with a theoretical analysis of the disavowal of the system by state and society and first-person narrative of the lived experience."

How adequately did governments protect their citizens over the Great Recession? The recent recession, the worst since the Great Depression, provides an opportune moment to investigate the adequacy and fairness of countries' responses to an economic crisis. Using household-level LIS data from...