It’s called scapegoating and it’s as old as divide and rule

  • Rhetta Moran
  • Grainne McMahon

Press/Media: Expert Comment

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The UK government is actively compounding the human suffering that intrinsically racist immigration laws inflict on people seeking asylum.

In fact, our participatory action research over the last 15 months about what is happening to the displaced people who have been placed in ‘contingency hotels’ simply reinforces our certainty that, from the government’s perspective, the more demonising and suffering inflicted on people seeking refuge here, the more the public hears about that suffering, and the more that government’s contractual cronies, such as Migrant Help, get away with not only doing nothing to stop it but actually heaping injury on top, the better.

It is essential, in fact, that the demonising – and coverage of it – continues.

Subject

The UK government is actively compounding the human suffering that intrinsically racist immigration laws inflict on people seeking asylum.

Period19 May 2023

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