How foreigners became the convenient scapegoat of the referendum campaign
Barker, R.
(2016).
How foreigners became the convenient scapegoat of the referendum campaign.
The Brexit campaign was never really about the EU or even immigration. It was about foreigners. Foreigners became a scapegoat for all the things that are not working properly – including in the NHS and in schools. But the government could not have confronted this use of xenophobia, writes Rodney Barker. Doing so would be to admit that these failures were not because of immigration but because of its own policies.
| Item Type | Online resource |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2016 The Author(s) CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 |
| Departments | LSE |
| Date Deposited | 29 Mar 2017 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/71332 |