Torture and the UK’s ‘War on Asylum’

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_3150
dc.contributor.author	Bhatia Monish
dc.contributor.author	Burnett Jon
dc.title	Torture and the UK’s ‘War on Asylum’. Medical Power and the Culture of Disbelief
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	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 examines how there have been attempts to narrow the definition of torture in ways which exclude people from the protections to which torture survivors are entitled. It explores the extent to which medical power has been complicit in riding roughshod over existing safeguards to prevent further harm to those who have experienced torture, and also, crucially, how this form of power has been and continues to be challenged.
dc.relation.ispartof	Sapere l’Europa, sapere d’Europa
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2019-12-06
dc.dateAccepted	2019-08-25
dc.dateSubmitted	2019-08-21
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-359-5/torture-and-the-uks-war-on-asylum/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-358-8/007
dc.identifier.issn	2611-0040
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9247
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-359-5
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-358-8
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Asylum seekers
dc.subject	Asylum seekers
dc.subject	Border control
dc.subject	Border control
dc.subject	Immigration detention
dc.subject	Immigration detention
dc.subject	Medical power
dc.subject	Medical power
dc.subject	Torture
dc.subject	Torture

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Torture and the UK’s ‘War on Asylum’

Medical Power and the Culture of Disbelief

Monish Bhatia Birkbeck, University of London, UK

Jon Burnett Swansea University, UK

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abstract

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 examines how there have been attempts to narrow the definition of torture in ways which exclude people from the protections to which torture survivors are entitled. It explores the extent to which medical power has been complicit in riding roughshod over existing safeguards to prevent further harm to those who have experienced torture, and also, crucially, how this form of power has been and continues to be challenged.

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Dec. 6, 2019

Accepted

Aug. 25, 2019

Submitted

Aug. 21, 2019

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978-88-6969-359-5

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978-88-6969-358-8

Keywords: Immigration detention • Asylum seekers • Torture • Medical power • Border control

permalink: http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-358-8/007

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