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Living with ‘Aliens’: Contrasting Public Perceptions and Experiences of Immigration at a ‘National’ and ‘Local’ Level

Griffiths

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According to a recent article entitled Immigration is British society's biggest problem (Boffey, 2013) nearly a third of the British public who took part in a survey perceive immigration to be one of the greatest causes of social division. Segregation and the ‘parallel lives’ that diverse cultures lead have been high on the political agenda ever since the 2001 northern riots in the towns of Oldham, Bradford and Burnley. Government policies have attempted to promote community cohesion and integration in diverse neighbourhoods. The topic of immigration and its imagined ‘threat’ to ‘British’ values and to ‘British’ communities has arisen again recently with both the Romanian and Bulgarian migration flows, and the killing of British soldier Lee Rigby; both of which have sparked a hostile response in negative media portrayals of immigrants or in protests against immigration involving the far right.

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Aug 19, 2013
Publication Date Aug 19, 2013
Journal Criminal Justice Matters
Print ISSN 0962-7251
Publisher Routledge
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 93
Issue 1
Pages 26-27
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09627251.2013.833793
Keywords criminology
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09627251.2013.833793

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