Excavating Hostility and Rationalising Violence through Anti-immigrant Confluent Discourses of Racial Threat, Risk, Burden and Lack (original) (raw)

The Legacies of Institutionalisation, 2020

Abstract

Recent nationalist/nativist attentions exemplified through discussions about Brexit in the United Kingdom (UK) and Donald Trump in the United States (US) have highlighted the need to re-examine reactions of consternation to immigration. Anti-immigration discourses are not new and have always been slippery or evasive. They can be historically presented and perceived as seldom, sparse, extreme or held in abeyance, while depictions of and reactions to immigration are simultaneously articulated with adulation in public performance and abnegation in policy practice. The latest varieties of advances in anti-immigration discourses have been powerfully, publicly productive for policy and influence on a global scale. Theses discourses wield both the insidious ideas that are carried from the past and the direct and brazen contemporary forms of racism and colonial hatred that work together to rationalise institutionalised, state-authorised dehumanisation and violence. These ideas produce and reproduce historically entrenched positions of institutionalised advantage and disadvantage,...

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