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...refugees entering the UK can distract from other issues affecting the country, related to the economy or public services. The flip side of this argument is that an anti-racist power can be built by engaging and connecting across multiple, dispersed organisations – e.g. charities working with businesses, trade unions and community groups. A counter-hegemony can work from...

...asylum law. Whichever subject area we focus on when studying law, the focus will be on an analysis of a set of rules and how these may be applied in a courtroom or how they affect society. Video 2 Discussion The academic discipline of law involves the study of the rules by which a society is governed. Its scope can include not only the study of the content and application...

...Asylum Act 2002, all successful adult applicants for British citizenship have been required to attend a citizenship ceremony. While they are quite a recent innovation in the UK, citizenship ceremonies have a longer history in other countries, such as Australia. These ceremonies are an example of a performance carried out by individual citizens that contributes to...

...asylum seeking testifies. In a similar vein, but in a very different context, consider what historian Rashid Khalidi calls ‘the quintessential Palestinian experience’, which ‘illustrates some of the most basic issues raised by Palestinian identity’ … [and which] takes place at a border, an airport, a checkpoint: in short, at any one of those many modern barriers...