Martin, Lauren L and Tazzioli, Martina. 2023. Value Extraction Through Refugee Carcerality: Data, Labour and Financialised Accommodation. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 41(2), pp. 191-209. ISSN 0263-7758 [Article]

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In this article, we argue that modes of labour and value extraction have been under-researched and under-theorised in critical geographical research on migration, asylum and refugee humanitarianism. We examine data production, voluntary work programmes and financialised asylum housing as key sites through which value is extracted from asylum-seekers’ unpaid and reproductive activities. We argue that specific forms of migrant carcerality are, firstly, grounded in migrants’ and asylum-seekers’ carceral conditions and exclusion from paid work. Secondly, we argue that subtle forms of coercion and conditionality at work in asylum hosting require asylum-seekers’ invisible and unpaid labour. Thirdly, we show how financialised real estate firms further capitalise on government contracts for asylum housing, rendering accommodation as another site of value extraction. We thereby expand conceptualisations of carceral economies of migration control beyond detention and confinement and elaborate the specific forms of labour and value extraction emerging from migration, asylum and refugee governance.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758231157397
Additional Information:	The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was supported by ESRC Standard Grant ES/S016643/1.
Keywords:	Refugees, humanitarianism, value, labour, data, extraction, carceral geography
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Politics
Dates:	Date Event 15 January 2023 Accepted 22 February 2023 Published Online April 2023 Published
Item ID:	33328
Date Deposited:	30 Mar 2023 16:34
Last Modified:	05 May 2023 14:16
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/33328

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