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This chapter examines evidence of racially and religiously motivated discrimination and abuse in the wake of the Race Relations Act 1965 . It then examines communal responses to racism and hate crime amidst further legislative action towards immigration control and the emergence of extremist rhetoric from political parties in the UK. It will be seen that repressive measures to restrict immigration were presented to the British public as a means to further race relations . These measures, it will be suggested, remained underpinned by modernist assumptions regarding the destabilising effect of immigration upon social and political order, couched in the language of competition for scarce resources. This rhetoric however masked continuing anxiety regarding the political and ideological threat posed by immigrant groups and their descendants, amidst an increasing awareness regarding the interdependency of foreign policy and home affairs.
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Laverick, W., Joyce, P. (2019). Racially Motivated Discrimination, Extremist Rhetoric, and Immigration Control: 1960 to the Early 1980s. In: Racial and Religious Hate Crime. Palgrave Hate Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21317-6_3
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