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Changing Attitudes, Changing Coalitions: The Politics of Immigration Before and After Brexit
The past politics of immigration in Britain are reviewed, with an explanation of how and why Brexit prompted change.
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Taking National Service Seriously
The aim of creating a dutiful citizenry has, historically, been important to the Labour Party too.
- Conservative Party
- Work & Trade Unions
- Progressive Politics
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Small Boats, Big Contracts: Extracting Value from the UK's Post-Brexit Asylum ‘Crisis’
The issue of post-Brexit asylum policy in the UK.
- Immigration
- Brexit
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Impartiality in Public Broadcasting
Why the principle of impartiality is under growing pressure.
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‘Full-Fat, Semi-Skimmed or Skimmed?’ The Political Economy of Immigration Policy since Brexit
Examining the political economy of immigration policy.
- Conservative Party
- Immigration
- Brexit
- Labour Party
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Immigration and Asylum Policy after Brexit: An Introduction
Recent immigration and asylum policies reflect the ambivalent, unstable and unresolved meanings of Brexit itself.
- Immigration
- Brexit
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The Persistence of the Hostile Environment after the Windrush Scandal
From a lack of measurable impact on migration statistics to the Windrush scandal, why does the hostile environment persist?
- Conservative Party
- Immigration
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The UK's ‘Safe and Legal’ Humanitarian Routes: from Colonial Ties to Privatising Protection
Evaluating the UK's ‘safe and legal (humanitarian)' immigration routes.
- Immigration
- Brexit
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Immigration and the Brexit Catastrophe: Empire, Citizenship and Ignorance
How the Conservatives presided over policies that demonised black Britons whilst admitting hundreds of thousands of immigrants.
- Immigration
- Brexit
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A Hundred Years of Labour Governments
Can there ever be a period of Labour government that is sustained in length and does not end in cries of betrayal?
- Elections & Campaigning
- Labour Party
