I was on BBC's AntiSocial at the end of last week discussing the growth of asylum hotels in Britain, the history of dispersal, and the importance of community-based housing for asylum seekers (at the 40min mark) @GeogDurham.@durham_uni

These comments build on a recent Conversation piece looking at how the UK has become reliant on hotels to accommodate asylum seekers and what can be done to fix a failing accomodation system:

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A short piece from me on the politics of 'asylum hotels' in Britain and the challenges for government in finding alternatives amid a range of social and political pressures: .

Great to see Durham Geography's @helen_fwilson on urban kittiwakes and coexistence featured in today's Guardian! The seagulls have landed: why gulls are encroaching on Britain’s towns

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RT @RGS_IBGhe: 📢New paper published in TIBG by @Jonny_Darling and Andrew Burridge 📢. 'Hotels, refuge, and the rise of carceral hospitality'….

New OA paper with Andrew Burridge on the role of hotels as adaptive spaces of asylum, thinking through the cultural politics of the hotel as a specific site of 'carceral hospitality' in the UK and Australia @GeogDurham @RGS_IBGhe

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RT @DetentionAction: Large detention and asylum sites - often remote former prisons and military bases - isolate people, damage their healt….

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Thanks @Sarah_Hughes90 & @osheringham for putting together this interview on "Systems of Suffering", was an enjoyable discussion of how asylum accommodation has developed in the UK and the potential for transformative change, radical care, and solidarity @PlutoPress @GeogDurham.

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RT @AsylumMatters: This damning piece by @LInvestigates / @prospect_uk highlights the harm of institutional asylum accommodation, the milli….

As a Bostonian, saddening to see hope invested in a 'party' with no interest in seriously addressing the challenges the town faces: "pandering to xenophobia does nothing to halt the far right, it simply pushes the political conversation in it's favour".