Abstract
This final chapter illustrates the important role of small charitable and voluntary third sector agencies in filling service gaps left by the Home Office and its dispersed asylum housing contractors. Through the application of Geiger and Wolch’s (Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 4(3), 351–366, 1986) concept of the ‘shadow state’, the first section cautions that such third sector services are in danger of being unwittingly co-opted into the state’s immigration control regime in their fulfilment of basic provision and social care functions. This chapter concludes with a review of current obstacles and future trajectories in challenging the continued abuse of asylum seekers within dispersed accommodation.
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