Immigration and asylum policies and practices in Britain have turned increasingly hostile. People seeking asylum are exposed to a panoply of control measures and rendered vulnerable. The state has exteriorized its controls and drawn-in various actors and agencies who now enact state power in the control of migration. This article moves away from essentialist and simplistic notions of the state—one that views the state as monolithic and coherent with strictly defined social borders—and explores the role of what Lipsky ( 2010 ), in his book Street-level Bureaucracy , calls “street-level bureaucrats.” It shows the ways in which actors and agencies enact state power and inflict cruelty on asylum seekers through their strategic actions and inactions. Drawing on data from ethnographic research, this article demonstrates how bureaucratic practices create and exacerbate psychological distress among asylum seekers and push them into dangerous and potentially life-threatening situations. By doing so, this article makes a contribution to the literature on migration, state racism and violence.

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允许残忍：街头官僚和对寻求庇护者的伤害

英国的移民和庇护政策和做法变得越来越敌对。寻求庇护的人面临着一整套控制措施并变得脆弱。国家已经将其控制外在化，并吸引了现在在控制移民方面制定国家权力的各种行为者和机构。本文摒弃了本质主义和简单化的国家概念——将国家视为整体且与严格界定的社会边界相一致——并探讨了利普斯基 (2010) 在他的着作“街头官僚制”中所称的“街道”的作用。级的官僚。” 它展示了行为者和机构通过他们的战略行动和不作为来行使国家权力并残酷对待寻求庇护者的方式。利用人种学研究的数据，本文展示了官僚作风如何造成和加剧寻求庇护者的心理困扰，并将他们推入危险和可能危及生命的境地。通过这样做，本文对有关移民、国家种族主义和暴力的文献做出了贡献。