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Generating confusion, concern, and precarity through the Right to Rent scheme in Scotland

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Date
06/2018
Author
Leahy, Sharon
McKee, Kim
Crawford, Joe
Keywords
Immigration Act 2016
Housing studies
Precarity
Fantasy citizenship
H Social Sciences (General)
HM Sociology
HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
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Abstract
The Immigration Act 2016 has heralded an era of amplified Government intervention into day-to-day life, placing increased responsibility for border protection on UK citizens. Using interviews with representatives from the field of housing in Scotland, this paper examines one specific aspect of the Immigration Act 2016, the Right to Rent scheme. We investigate how the Right to Rent creates a precarious environment for all those who may appear to be non-UK citizens. We argue that it may endorse senses of fantasy citizenship to inculcate people into acting on behalf of the state and is a driver for further division in society. Scotland provides a particularly interesting case study, as housing is a devolved power, but immigration is not. This creates an additional layer of tension in our interview data, as housing organisations are faced with a set of conditions imposed from Westminster, infringing on a field that Scotland has self-determined for some time. Our interviews illustrate the level of confusion around the scheme, the fact that it is increasing criminalisation in the housing sector, and stresses that the scheme is offloading state responsibility for border protection.
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Leahy , S , McKee , K & Crawford , J 2018 , ' Generating confusion, concern, and precarity through the Right to Rent scheme in Scotland ' , Antipode , vol. 50 , no. 3 , pp. 604-620 . https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12369
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Antipode
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12369
ISSN
0066-4812
Type
Journal article
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© 2017 the Author © 2017 Antipode Foundation Ltd. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12369
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.12369/full
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/19013

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