What Lies Beneath: Exploring Links Between Asylum Policy and Hate Crime in the UK

摘要: This paper explores the link between increasing incidents of hate crime and asylum policy successive British governments with its central emphasis on deterrence. The constant problematisation seekers in media political discourse ensures that ‘anti-immigrant’ prejudice becomes mainstreamed as a common-sense response. victims are not only hoping for better life but democratic society itself inherent values pluralism tolerance debased destabilised.