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HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT - MAYA GOODFELLOW KARTONIER...

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 thatswarmsof 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.

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