Editorial introduction: Racialised migrants navigating the UK's hostile environment policies

Reynolds, Tracey; Erel, Umut and O'Neill, Maggie (2024). Editorial introduction: Racialised migrants navigating the UK's hostile environment policies. Critical Social Policy, 44(2) pp. 165–177.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183231223947

Abstract

This themed issue explores how the British Government are trying to embed immigration control in every aspect of life in the UK for racialised migrants. The articles study the ideological underpinnings of hostile environment policies, to highlight the multiple ways in which racialised migrants are specifically targeted, positioned as ‘unworthy' citizens'. Hostile environment policies create a climate of fear, and as several articles in the volume will show, a knock-on effect is that policies discourage racialised women from accessing important care, specialist health services including maternal care, and from reporting domestic abuse, because of the justifiable concern that the NHS acts as a ‘border police' institution by the government to document and report patients' immigration status Articles in this issue explore how hostile environment policies from the government increased racialised migrants’ vulnerability to poverty, destitution and homelessness. Each of the articles centre the lived experience of the hostile environment for racialised migrants to appraise its impact on public health, mortality rates, the public purse and wider social relations in the UK.

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