informing this article coincided with the introduction of the ‘hostileenvironment’ towards so-called ‘illegal immigrants’ in 2012. The hostileenvironment was a combined legislative and media campaign intending to encourage those without permission to remain in the UK to leave voluntarily or face the ‘near and present danger of being arrested’ (Home Office 2013). The re-raising of the contemporary ‘folk-devil’ of the ‘illegal immigrant’ within public and political discourse—and its easy conflation with
Mark Justin Rainey
Borderlands, Volume 18 , ISSUE 2, 138–164
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