Jonny Darling

Urban and political geographer, Durham University. Trustee: @NACCOMnetwork. Author of Systems of Suffering: Dispersal and the Denial of Asylum (Pluto Press).

[Manchester University Press @ManchesterUP]

🍂 Our Autumn/Winter Trade Catalogue has arrived!

Discover the new non-fiction we're publishing September 2026 - February 2027.

New books from @Taj_Ali1, @Mr_Dave_Haslam, @EmiGarside, @sophieolive, @Jonny_Darling & more - browse here: https://t.co/j0U1O21GOt

[Pluto Press @PlutoPress]

As borders multiply, so too must resistance.

This reading list is an invitation to imagine a world beyond the violence of borders, and organize for a future where people are free to move: https://t.co/cxTVD7vgYR

[Jonny Darling @Jonny_Darling]

Timely and critical Home Affairs Committee report on asylum accommodation noting failures on costs, safeguarding, and conditions. Disappointing the report stops short of proposing an overhaul and remains accepting of mass accommodation as a feasible model: https://t.co/bxusWqSpeM

[Jonny Darling @Jonny_Darling]

Commentary on asylum hotels considering how govt can develop dignified community-based housing that meets multiple social needs. Warehousing people in camps and continuing a failed experiment in privatisation will cause nothing but further harm @durham_uni https://t.co/vMlPFJGZxK

[Jonny Darling @Jonny_Darling]

I was on BBC's AntiSocial at the end of last week discussing the growth of asylum hotels in Britain, the history of dispersal, and the importance of community-based housing for asylum seekers (at the 40min mark) @GeogDurham
@durham_uni https://t.co/iYUmhUOiS3

[Jonny Darling @Jonny_Darling]

These comments build on a recent Conversation piece looking at how the UK has become reliant on hotels to accommodate asylum seekers and what can be done to fix a failing accomodation system: https://t.co/TMyFXi9AZQ

[Jonny Darling @Jonny_Darling]

A short piece from me on the politics of 'asylum hotels' in Britain and the challenges for government in finding alternatives amid a range of social and political pressures:
https://t.co/m1pYFCOM65

[Jonny Darling @Jonny_Darling]

Great to see Durham Geography's @helen_fwilson on urban kittiwakes and coexistence featured in today's Guardian! The seagulls have landed: why gulls are encroaching on Britain’s towns https://t.co/iE9uuLCyxT

[Geography at Durham @GeogDurham]

Job opportunity @GeogDurham - Postdoctoral Research Associate in Human Geography (Job Number: 25000340) closing date for applications 11.59pm on 23rd April 2025 https://t.co/5JyMH34glO

[Geography at Durham @GeogDurham]

Check out this new book by our very own Ivan Markovic @hazyhistories. You can also listen to Ivan speaking about the topic and his book on BBC 4's Thinking Allowed programme: https://t.co/HjE85GXOz8

[Home Affairs Committee @CommonsHomeAffs]

During our evidence session investigating asylum accommodation, Prof. Jonathan Darling of @durham_uni discusses how he feels the Government's focus needs shifting in order to affect change in the current system 👇

[Home Affairs Committee @CommonsHomeAffs]

Witnesses from 2.30pm:

Sachin Savur, Institute for Government
Dr Lucy Mort, Institute for Public Policy Research
Professor Jonathan Darling, Durham University

From 3.30pm:

David Bolt, Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration

Watch live: https://t.co/UAZD3T8p3y

[Home Affairs Committee @CommonsHomeAffs]

We're scrutinising the current state of the asylum accommodation system.

We'll take evidence from Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, David Bolt on his recent inspections, and researchers in asylum policy.

Watch on Parliament Live, Tuesday 18 March at 2.30pm.

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[RGS-IBG Higher Ed @RGS_IBGhe]

📢New paper published in TIBG by @Jonny_Darling and Andrew Burridge 📢

'Hotels, refuge, and the rise of carceral hospitality'. #OpenAccess

https://t.co/oOY86ZyBu0

[Jonny Darling @Jonny_Darling]

New OA paper with Andrew Burridge on the role of hotels as adaptive spaces of asylum, thinking through the cultural politics of the hotel as a specific site of 'carceral hospitality' in the UK and Australia @GeogDurham @RGS_IBGhe https://t.co/7JyaRPXGzU

[Colin McFarlane @ColinMcFarlane3]

Two permanent Assistant Professorships in Human Geography! With expertise in geographies of nature, climate change, & just and sustainable futures

[Detention Action @DetentionAction]

Large detention and asylum sites - often remote former prisons and military bases - isolate people, damage their health and limit support. We urge this government to stop wasting money on these sites and provide community-based accommodation instead. 
https://t.co/tCudBQhVtX

[New Formations journal @NewFormations_]

✨NEW ISSUE OUT NOW✨

#112 Affect and Ideology, guest edited by @AJSecor and @BenAndersonGeog

@helen_fwilson
Jesse Goldstein
@PhilipRConway
@DrCarolynP
@derekruez
@dan_cockayne
Helen Graham
@kaibosworth
@ruawall

Lots of free to download content: https://t.co/igzp441DFX

[Jonny Darling @Jonny_Darling]

Thanks @Sarah_Hughes90 & @osheringham for putting together this interview on "Systems of Suffering", was an enjoyable discussion of how asylum accommodation has developed in the UK and the potential for transformative change, radical care, and solidarity @PlutoPress @GeogDurham

[ECSEuroProject @EcsEuro]

𝙀𝙣𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙯𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙎𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙙𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮 "𝙁𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝘽𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙬"

Final @ECSEuro Conference in Hamburg, October 9-11

Focus on urban struggles at the intersection of migrant rights, care, housing and commons

Info & Registration: https://t.co/wBvIHrnFuP