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T1 - The UK’s ‘hostile environment’ has moved into a new phase of state violence but public resistance to it is growing
AU - Doebler, Stefanie
PY - 2022/6/29
Y1 - 2022/6/29
N2 - Recent months have seen a new phase of anti-immigrant policymaking in the UK, characterised by a shift in deportations away from predominantly targeting foreign nationals with a criminal record to targeting refugees regardless of whether they committed a crime or not. UK government rhetoric on immigration, whilst having peddled xenophobia for at least a decade, now focuses distinctly on criminalising refugees who arrived via unregulated routes and the Home secretary famously threatened to push back migrant boats into the English channel using military force.
AB - Recent months have seen a new phase of anti-immigrant policymaking in the UK, characterised by a shift in deportations away from predominantly targeting foreign nationals with a criminal record to targeting refugees regardless of whether they committed a crime or not. UK government rhetoric on immigration, whilst having peddled xenophobia for at least a decade, now focuses distinctly on criminalising refugees who arrived via unregulated routes and the Home secretary famously threatened to push back migrant boats into the English channel using military force.
U2 - 10.57708/B122443630
DO - 10.57708/B122443630
M3 - Blog
PB - EURAC Research Science Blogs
CY - Bolzano (South Tyrol), Italy
ER -