General Article Are East Europeans victims of racism in the UK?

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Since 2004, nearly 1.9 million East Europeans have come to the UK. New research, led by academics at the University of Bristol, has examined how current East European migration to the UK has been racialised in immigration policy and tabloid journalism, providing the first insights into how racism is affecting migrants’ experiences of work and life in the UK.

In an 18-month project, published in the journal Sociology, led by Dr Jon Fox, Senior Lecturer from the University’s School of Sociolog...

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