Asylum, welfare and the cosmopolitan ideal: a sociology of rights (2010)

Av: Lydia Morris

The book documents government attempts to use destitution as a deterrent to control asylum numbers, and examines a series of legal challenges to this policy, spanning a period both before and after the Human Rights Act.

Morris shows how human rights can be used as a tool for radical change, and in so doing, proposes a multi-layered 'model' for understanding rights. This incorporates political strategy, public policy, civil society mobilisation, judicial decision-making, and their public impact, and advances a dynamic understanding of rights as part of the recurrent encounter between principles and politics.

About the author:

Lydia Morris has a BA in Sociology and Politics and a PhD in Anthropology. She is currently a Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex. Her interests lie principally in the area of social rights, and for many years her work has focused on poverty, unemployment and welfare provisions.

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