"Swamped" by anti-immigration campaigns

Jones, Hannah; Bhattacharyya, Gargi; Forkert, Kirsten; Davies, Will; Dhaliwal, Sukhwant; Gunaratnam, Yasmin; Jackson, Emma and Saltus,, Roiyah. 2014. "Swamped" by anti-immigration campaigns. [Digital]

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Alarmed by the anti-immigration campaigns in the summer 2013 and wary that expressing outrage in publications and on social media might do little other than amplify the ‘Go Home’ message, a group of academics and activists came together primarily through interactions on Twitter, and decided to put our social research skills to some use in the debate. We organised ourselves quickly, informally – and, looking back on it, rather impressively! – to conduct a series of street surveys that would gather the views of people living in the areas affected by the Go Home van and high profile spot checks, on those interventions and the immigration debate more broadly..

Item Type:

Digital

Keywords:

Immigration Campaigns

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Sociology

Date:

6 May 2014

Item ID:

10378

Date Deposited:

03 Jun 2014 08:16

Last Modified:

07 Jul 2017 09:38

URI:

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/10378

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