The UK government proudly calls the aim of its immigration policy to be
the creation of a "hostile environment," while refugees drown in the
Mediterranean and Britain votes to leave the EU against claims that
"swarms"of migrants are entering Britain. Meanwhile, study after study
confirms that immigration is not damaging the UK's economy, nor putting a
strain on public services, but immigration is blamed for all of
Britain's ills. Yet concerns about immigration are deemed "legitimate"
across the political spectrum, with few exceptions.
How did we
get here?Maya Goodfellow offers a compelling answer. Through interviews
with leading policy-makers, asylum seekers, and immigration lawyers,
Goodfellow illuminates the dark underbelly of contemporary immigration
policies. A nuanced analysis of the UK's immigration policy from the
1960s onwards, Hostile Environment links immigration policy and the
rhetoric of both Labour and Tory governments to the UK's colonial past
and its imperialist present.
Goodfellow shows that distinct
forms of racism and dehumanisation directly resulted from immigration
policy, and reminds us of the human cost of concessions to
anti-immigration politics.
Hostile Environment : How Immigrants Become the Scapegoats - Maya Goodfellow
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