Brexit, race and migration

This timely series of interventions scrutinises the centrality of race and migration to the 2016 Brexit campaign, vote and its aftermath. It brings together five individual pieces, with an accompanying introduction, which interrogate different facets of how race, migration and Brexit interconnect: an examination of the so-called left behinds and the fundamental intersections between geography, race and class at the heart of Brexit motivations and contexts; an exploration of arguably parallel and similarly complex developments in the US with the rise of populism and support for Donald Trump; an analysis of the role of whiteness in the experiences of East European nationals in the UK in the face of increased anti-foreigner sentiment and uncertainty about future status; a discussion of intergenerational differences in outlooks on race and immigration and the sidelining of different people and places in Brexit debates; and a studied critique of prevailing tropes about Brexit which create divisive classed and raced categories and seek to oversimplify broader understandings of race, class and migration. Taken together these articles, all arguing for the need to eschew easy answers and superficial narratives, offer important and opportune insights into what Brexit tells us about race and migration in contemporary UK.

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Identity Politics and Migration

Anthropological Journal of European Cultures ◽

10.3167/ajec.2008.01701010 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 155-158

Author(s):

Vytis Čiubrinskas

Keyword(s):

National Identity ◽

Identity Politics ◽

Host Country ◽

Social Anthropology ◽

The Us ◽

And Migration ◽

The Uk ◽

A Current ◽

Respective Host

The Centre of Social Anthropology (CSA) at Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) in Kaunas has coordinated projects on this, including a current project on 'Retention of Lithuanian Identity under Conditions of Europeanisation and Globalisation: Patterns of Lithuanian-ness in Response to Identity Politics in Ireland, Norway, Spain, the UK and the US'. This has been designed as a multidisciplinary project. The actual expressions of identity politics of migrant, 'diasporic' or displaced identity of Lithuanian immigrants in their respective host country are being examined alongside with the national identity politics of those countries.

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Culture and the popular: Introduction to essays in memory of Brian Rigby

French Cultural Studies ◽

10.1177/0957155818795380 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 29 (4) ◽

pp. 293-299

Author(s):

Michael Kelly

Keyword(s):

Popular Culture ◽

Cultural Studies ◽

Cultural History ◽

Rapid Expansion ◽

Daily Lives ◽

The Us ◽

The 1960S ◽

The Uk ◽

French Cultural Studies

This article introduces the special number of French Cultural Studies commemorating the role of Brian Rigby as the journal’s first Managing Editor. It situates his contribution in the emergence of cultural history and French cultural studies during the rapid expansion of higher education from the 1960s in France, the UK, the US and other countries. It suggests that these new areas of study saw cultural activities in a broader social context and opened the way to a wider understanding of culture, in which popular culture played an increasingly important part. It argues that the study of popular culture can illuminate some of the most mundane experiences of everyday life, and some of the most challenging. It can also help to understand the rapidly changing cultural environment in which our daily lives are now conducted.

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Journalism from Above: Drones and the Media in Critical Perspective

Media and Communication ◽

10.17645/mac.v8i3.3442 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 60-63

Author(s):

Jonas Harvard ◽

Mats Hyvönen ◽

Ingela Wadbring

Keyword(s):

Media Production ◽

Media Technology ◽

Public Authorities ◽

The Us ◽

The Media ◽

Legal Constraints ◽

The Uk ◽

New Research ◽

Journalistic Practice

In the last decade, the development of small, remotely operated multicopters with cameras, so-called drones, has made aerial photography easily available. Consumers and institutions now use drones in a variety of ways, both for personal entertainment and professionally. The application of drones in media production and journalism is of particular interest, as it provides insight into the complex interplay between technology, the economic and legal constraints of the media market, professional cultures and audience preferences. The thematic issue <em>Journalism from Above: Drones, the Media, and the Transformation of Journalistic Practice</em> presents new research concerning the role of drones in journalism and media production. The issue brings together scholars representing a variety of approaches and perspectives. A broad selection of empirical cases from Finland, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the US form the basis of an exploration of the changing relations between the media, technology and society. The articles address topics such as: Adaption of drone technology in the newsrooms; audience preferences and reactions in a changing media landscape; the relation between journalists and public authorities who use drones; and attitudes from journalistic practitioners as well as historical and future perspectives.

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Ukraine in the Focus of US Foreign Policy Priorities

Russia and New States of Eurasia ◽

10.20542/2073-4786-2020-3-66-79 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 66-79

Author(s):

N. Gegelashvili ◽

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I. Modnikova ◽

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Soviet Union ◽

The United States ◽

Donald Trump ◽

The Soviet Union ◽

The Us ◽

The World ◽

The Russian Federation ◽

Radical Transformation

The article analyzes the US policy towards Ukraine dating back from the time before the reunification of Crimea with Russia and up to Donald Trump coming to power. The spectrum of Washington’s interests towards this country being of particular strategic interest to the United States are disclosed. It should be noted that since the disintegration of the Soviet Union Washington’s interest in this country on the whole has not been very much different from its stand on all post-Soviet states whose significance was defined by the U,S depending on their location on the world map as well as on the value of their natural resources. However, after the reunification of Crimea with Russia Washington’s stand on this country underwent significant changes, causing a radical transformation of the U,S attitude in their Ukrainian policy. During the presidency of Barack Obama the American policy towards Ukraine was carried out rather sluggishly being basically declarative in its nature. When President D. Trump took his office Washington’s policy towards Ukraine became increasingly more offensive and was characterized by a rather proactive stance not only because Ukraine became the principal arena of confrontation between the United States and the Russian Federation, but also because it became a part of the US domestic political context. Therefore, an outcome of the “battle” for Ukraine is currently very important for the United States in order to prove to the world its role of the main helmsman in the context of a diminishing US capability of maintaining their global superiority.

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The Role of Corporate Residence in Tax Matters and its Relationship with the Provision of Dividend Relief: A Comparative Analysis between the UK and the US Tax Systems

International Journal of Accounting and Taxation ◽

10.15640/ijat.v7n1a4 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Amedeo Rizzo

Keyword(s):

Comparative Analysis ◽

The Us ◽

Tax Systems ◽

The Uk

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The Origins of Neoliberalism and the Role of the German State

Unwitting Architect ◽

10.11126/stanford/9781503609846.003.0002 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 16-33

Author(s):

Julian Germann

Keyword(s):

International Political Economy ◽

The United States ◽

German State ◽

The Us ◽

Global Movement ◽

Anglo American ◽

The Uk ◽

Corporate Profits ◽

German Contribution

This chapter reviews the most prominent explanations of the global rise of neoliberalism provided within critical International Political Economy: (1) a state-centered argument, which holds that neoliberalism was imposed by the United States in a bid to reassert its global dominance; (2) a class-based argument, which sees neoliberalism as the project of globalizing elites who sought to restore their corporate profits and power; and (3) an ideational argument, which describes the rise of neoliberalism as a paradigmatic shift in economic ideas. The chapter argues that these accounts share a common bias: they pivot unduly on the Anglo-American world and are unable to capture the peculiar German contribution to the origins of neoliberalism. As a result, they misread the rise of Germany to the apex of a neoliberal Europe as a belated repetition of the same global movement spearheaded by the US and the UK.

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Big Data Analytics and the Accessibility of Public Inquiries

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474463522.003.0015 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 217-230

Author(s):

Philip Garnett ◽

Sarah M. Hughes

Keyword(s):

Big Data ◽

Data Analytics ◽

Big Data Analytics ◽

The Public ◽

The Us ◽

The Uk

In this chapter, Garnett and Hughes focus on the role of big data in accessing information from public inquiries. Looking at the Chelsea Manning court martial in the US and the Leveson Inquiry in the UK, they argue that the manner in which information pertaining to inquiries is made public is, at best, unsatisfactory. They propose a variety of means to make this information more accessible and hence more transparent to the public through employing big data techniques.

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Situating Continuing Professional Development in Life Long Learning in Qatar

International Journal of Business and Management ◽

10.5539/ijbm.v11n11p81 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 11 (11) ◽

pp. 81 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Vishanth Weerakkody ◽

Mohamad Osmani ◽

Paul Waller ◽

Nitham Hindi ◽

Rajab Al-Esmail

Keyword(s):

Professional Development ◽

Continuing Professional Development ◽

Developed Countries ◽

The Past ◽

Life Long Learning ◽

The Us ◽

Local Contexts ◽

The Uk ◽

High Level

<p>Continued professional development (CPD) has been at the centre of capacity building in most successful organisations in western countries over the past few decades. Specialised professions in fields such as Accounting, Finance and ICT, to name but a few, are continuously evolving, which is necessitating certain standards to be followed through registration and certification by a designated authority (e.g. ACCA). Whilst most developed countries such as the UK and the US have well established frameworks for CPD for these professions, several developing nations, including Qatar (the chosen context for this article) are only just beginning to adopt these frameworks into their local contexts. However, the unique socio-cultural settings in such countries require these frameworks to be appropriately modified before they are adopted within the respective national context. The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of CPD in Qatar through comparing the UK as a benchmark and drawing corresponding and contrasting observations to formulate a roadmap towards developing a high level framework.</p>

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Formulating Industrial Policy

National Institute Economic Review ◽

10.1177/002795011925000117 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 250 ◽

pp. R47-R53

Author(s):

Tim Besley ◽

Richard Davies

Keyword(s):

Market Failure ◽

Data Driven ◽

Executive Summary ◽

Structural Weakness ◽

The Face ◽

Data Driven Approach ◽

Economic Contribution ◽

The Government ◽

The Uk

Executive SummaryAlongside the challenge of maintaining economic competitiveness in the face of great uncertainty, Brexit brings an opportunity for the government to set out a new industrial strategy. The case for doing so rests on the need to address areas of persistent structural weakness in the UK economy, including low productivity. But it is important that any new industrial strategy be based on appropriately granular data reflecting the real structure of the UK corporate sector: the overwhelmingly preponderant role of services as opposed to manufacturing, for example; the importance of young, fast-growing firms as opposed to SMEs; the relatively high failure rate of companies in the UK; and the relative lack of successful mid-sized firms. Such a data-driven approach might spawn an industrial strategy quite different from the piecemeal programmes of recent years.Internationally, the UK is a laggard in this area, and the recently-created Industrial Strategy Council does not look strong enough to change that position. To move forward, the government needs to make industrial strategy a central plank of economic policy, embedded at the heart of the administration with its own staff and funding, and operations based on a comprehensive review of the economic contribution and potential of various types of firm. Needless to say, it cannot be a substitute for a continuing commitment to competition and markets, or a stalking horse for protectionism: interventions should be justified by carefully-argued market failure arguments, be time-limited, and transparently evaluated.

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