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Edinburgh International Book Festival, Hostile Environment, Immigration, Structural Violence, WOMAD Festival
Recent visa refusals for visiting artists and writers at festivals in the UK have prompted discussions about the ‘Hostile Environment’. This is an intervention that argues that characterising the problems faced by these artists as aspects of the Hostile Environment is misleading, and the conversation around immigration needs greater nuance.
The ‘Hostile Environment’: Structural Violence in British Immigration Policy
29 Friday Sep 2017
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Antonio Gramsci, Bureaucracy, Hannah Arendt, Immigration, Johan Galtung, Louis Althusser, Structural Violence
An essay on the forms of structural violence in the Home Office’s immigration policy to create a ‘hostile environment’ towards migrants through the co-opting of private actors into the repressive state apparatus and the overlap of consent and coercion through which the state diminishes their life chances.