The UK's asylum and social welfare systems have both been transformed by major organisational changes, funding cuts, and privatisations through a decade of austerity. With this, asylum-seeker accommodation and the impacts of welfare reform have become increasingly concentrated in already-impoverished, peripheral urban areas such as Rochdale, Greater Manchester. Despite these parallels, scholarship and commentary in the UK has tended to consider welfare and border regimes in relative isolation. Based on ethnographic work conducted in two charity drop-centres in the town, this article addresses this gap by exploring how the UK's converging politics and geographies of asylum and welfare governance shape everyday negotiations of deservingness and social in/exclusion.

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庇护与紧缩政策的交汇点：罗奇代尔的应得性和进入/排斥

英国的庇护和社会福利体系都因十年紧缩政策中的重大组织变革、资金削减和私有化而发生了变化。由此，寻求庇护者的住宿和福利改革的影响越来越集中在罗奇代尔、大曼彻斯特等已经贫困的周边城市地区。尽管存在这些相似之处，英国的学术和评论仍然倾向于相对孤立地考虑福利和边境制度。本文基于该镇两个慈善救助中心进行的民族志研究，通过探讨英国庇护和福利治理的政治和地理融合如何影响日常的应得和社会融入/排斥谈判，来解决这一差距。