Uploaded November 2019 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Climate breakdown is going to require a change to immigration policy. How can we make sure that people are protected?
Maya Goodfellow is the author of Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats. A nuanced analysis of the UK’s immigration policy from the 1960s onwards, Hostile Environment links immigration policy and the rhetoric of both Labour and Tory governments to the UK’s colonial past and its imperialist present. Goodfellow shows that distinct forms of racism and dehumanisation directly resulted from immigration policy, and reminds us of the human cost of concessions to anti-immigration politics.
Climate breakdown is going to require a change to immigration policy. How can we make sure that people are protected?
Maya Goodfellow is the author of Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats. A nuanced analysis of the UK’s immigration policy from the 1960s onwards, Hostile Environment links immigration policy and the rhetoric of both Labour and Tory governments to the UK’s colonial past and its imperialist present. Goodfellow shows that distinct forms of racism and dehumanisation directly resulted from immigration policy, and reminds us of the human cost of concessions to anti-immigration politics.
