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View article: Capital’s Genocide: A Conversation on Racial Capitalism, Settler Colonialism, and Possible Worlds after Gaza
Capital’s Genocide: A Conversation on Racial Capitalism, Settler Colonialism, and Possible Worlds after Gaza Open
Taking as a starting point the desire of many to locate the unfolding genocide in Gaza in the irrationality of its perpetrators — the Israeli state and/or its imperial backers — this article proposes instead to understand it as an extreme …
View article: Imagined maps of racial capitalism
Imagined maps of racial capitalism Open
This chapter tells the story of an imaginary map of racial capitalism. The image functions as both mystery and diagram, leading the viewer to trace possible routes of culpability and connection but also illustrating unexpected relations of…
View article: Perceived Stress, Hardship, and Self-Reported Health Status of Persons Living with Diabetes Mellitus during Coronavirus Disease-19 Pandemic and Lockdown
Perceived Stress, Hardship, and Self-Reported Health Status of Persons Living with Diabetes Mellitus during Coronavirus Disease-19 Pandemic and Lockdown Open
Introduction: Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic and subsequent complete lockdown have resulted in a lot of difficulties in availing essential services including medical care, especially among the persons living with Type 2 diabete…
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This book illuminates the personal experience of being at the centre of a media scandal. The existential level of that experience is highlighted by means of the application of ethnological and phenomenological perspectives to extensive emp…
View article: Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements Open
This book illuminates the personal experience of being at the centre of a media scandal. The existential level of that experience is highlighted by means of the application of ethnological and phenomenological perspectives to extensive emp…
View article: List of figures
List of figures Open
This book illuminates the personal experience of being at the centre of a media scandal. The existential level of that experience is highlighted by means of the application of ethnological and phenomenological perspectives to extensive emp…
View article: Index
Index Open
This book illuminates the personal experience of being at the centre of a media scandal. The existential level of that experience is highlighted by means of the application of ethnological and phenomenological perspectives to extensive emp…
View article: Bibliography
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This book illuminates the personal experience of being at the centre of a media scandal. The existential level of that experience is highlighted by means of the application of ethnological and phenomenological perspectives to extensive emp…
View article: Revisiting histories of anti-racist thought and activism
Revisiting histories of anti-racist thought and activism Open
This piece reconsiders histories of anti-racist thought and practice, including the linkages between anti-racisms and other traditions of liberatory thought. We argue that anti-racism should be understood as a strand in radical thought lin…
View article: Conflict, Memory, Displacement
Conflict, Memory, Displacement Open
Conflict, Memory, Displacement explores our understanding of global conflict as it relates to the European refugee crisis, focusing on the UK and Italy. We examined how this understanding is constructed through media representations, offic…
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Contents Open
This book presents new theories and international empirical evidence on the state of work and employment around the world. Changes in production systems, economic conditions and regulatory conditions are posing new questions about the grow…
View article: Introduction
Introduction Open
In this chapter we: Contextualise the immigration regimes and debates within which our study took place Describe and discuss the Go Home van and related government communications in relation to broader immigration regimes and practices Sum…
View article: Living Research Two
Living Research Two Open
This section critically reflects on the role of emotions in fieldwork, particularly when researching 'sensitive subjects' that have serious implications for both research participants and the researcher. Using examples from our own researc…
View article: Notes on authors
Notes on authors Open
This book presents new theories and international empirical evidence on the state of work and employment around the world. Changes in production systems, economic conditions and regulatory conditions are posing new questions about the grow…
View article: List of figures
List of figures Open
This book presents new theories and international empirical evidence on the state of work and employment around the world. Changes in production systems, economic conditions and regulatory conditions are posing new questions about the grow…
View article: Dedication
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This book presents new theories and international empirical evidence on the state of work and employment around the world. Changes in production systems, economic conditions and regulatory conditions are posing new questions about the grow…
View article: Un/deserving migrants and resisting dehumanisation
Un/deserving migrants and resisting dehumanisation Open
This chapter is concerned with the making of distinctions between 'deserving and 'undeserving' migrants. It does this through an examinination of tensions within local communities and traditional welfare distinctions between good and bad c…
View article: Living Research Five
Living Research Five Open
This section addresses ways in which our research was informed by, used, and studied, social media technologies – namely Twitter – in our research on the effects of government anti-immigration campaigns. It also discusses the relationship …
View article: Afterword
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An afterword by Kiri Kankhwende, freelance journalist and commentator on immigration and politics and a member of Media Diversified.
View article: Spaces and places of governance and resistance
Spaces and places of governance and resistance Open
This chapter shows how local histories of migration and activism impact on how immigration enforcement campaigns are experienced and interpreted. For example, it discusses how opposition to Go Home posters in Glasgow fed into debates about…
View article: Conclusion
Conclusion Open
This concluding chapter brings together the key themes from our research and raises questions about the developing politics of immigration control at the critical and fastchanging moment in which we complete this book.
View article: Go home?
Go home? Open
In July 2013, the UK government arranged for a van to drive through parts of London carrying the message ‘In the UK illegally? GO HOME or face arrest.’ The vans were short-lived, but they were part of an ongoing trend in government-sponsor…
View article: Acknowledgements
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This book presents new theories and international empirical evidence on the state of work and employment around the world. Changes in production systems, economic conditions and regulatory conditions are posing new questions about the grow…
View article: Index
Index Open
This book presents new theories and international empirical evidence on the state of work and employment around the world. Changes in production systems, economic conditions and regulatory conditions are posing new questions about the grow…
View article: Immigration and the limits of statistical government
Immigration and the limits of statistical government Open
The focus of this chapter is on how the politicisation of immigration policy in the UK tests the limits of liberal governmentality. Typically, this form of government is understood in terms of splitting questions of 'politics' from those o…
View article: Permeable borders, performative politics and public mistrust
Permeable borders, performative politics and public mistrust Open
This chapter draws on the framework of performance politics proposed by the political scientist Shirin Rai (2014). It discusses Operation Vaken as part of a deployment of theatricalised violence by the British state in recent decades in wh…
View article: Living Research One
Living Research One Open
A researcher and a community activist discuss ways in which academic researchers worked with community organisations on researching the impact of Home Office immigration campaigns, the difference this collaboration has made, and some of th…
View article: Living Research Six
Living Research Six Open
Here we discuss what was involved in our research relationships, from those between ourselves as academic activists and 'resisting others' (Autonomous Geographies Collective, 2010: 248) to our work with an established, profit-making resear…
View article: Appendix
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This book presents new theories and international empirical evidence on the state of work and employment around the world. Changes in production systems, economic conditions and regulatory conditions are posing new questions about the grow…