Is Britain becoming a more racist society? Arun Kundnani looks behind the media hysteria to show how multicultural Britain is under attack by government policies and vitriolic press campaigns that play upon fear and encourage racism.
Exacerbated by the attacks of 9/11 and 7/7, Kundnani argues that a new form of racism is emerging that is based on a systematic failure to understand the causes of forced migration, global terrorism and social segregation. The result is a climate of hatred, especially against Muslims and asylum seekers. Yet the government presses ahead with flawed policies and anti-terrorist legislation that creates further resentment, alienation and criminalisation.
What can be done? This timely and precise analysis is a useful account of why racism is now thriving - and what we can do to stop it.
Acknowledgements
Foreword by A. Sivanandan
Introduction
1. Echoes of empire
2. From dependency to displacement
3. Seeds of segregation
4. We are here because you are there
5. Asylum and the welfare state
6. The dialectics of terror
7. The Halabja generation
8. Integrationism: the politics of anti-Muslim racism
9. Migration and the market-state
10. Here to stay
11. The new Leviathan
12. Community: theirs and ours
Notes to the text
Index
