1st Edition
Migrant Homelessness and the Crimmigration Control System
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Using Critical Realism to Understand Migrant Homelessness and Crimmigration Control
- Three Drivers of Migration—Survival, Freedom and Opportunity
- Service Provision in a ‘Hostile Environment’
- Exclusion and Housing Sacrifice
- Conclusion: Crimmigration, Housing Sacrifice, Citizenship and the Right to Housing
- Postscript: The Magic of Crimmigration
Index
Biography
Regina Serpa is a housing researcher and an RTPI chartered planner based in the UK. She is currently a lecturer in housing at the University of Stirling and a committee member of the Housing Studies Association. Previously, she was a Primary Investigator on a comparative, three-country study of migrant homelessness—an ESRC-funded postdoctoral research collaboration with Leiden Law School and the University of Stirling. She obtained her Doctorate (PhD) degree in Urban Studies in 2019 from Heriot-Watt University. Regina is a consultant at a private research firm in Scotland and a guest researcher at Leiden University where her research focuses on international crimmigration law—the convergence of criminal and immigration law.
