‘I Will Not Be Thrown Out of the Country Because I’m an Immigrant’: Eastern European Migrants’ Responses to Hate Crime in a Semi-Rural Context in the Wake of Brexit

Karen Lumsden, Jackie Goode and Alex Black
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Karen Lumsden: University of Leicester, UK
Jackie Goode: Loughborough University, UK
Alex Black: Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Sociological Research Online, 2019, vol. 24, issue 2, 167-184

Abstract: This article examines Eastern European migrants’ experiences of and responses to hate crime. Following the UK European Union Membership Referendum (‘Brexit’ vote), there was an increase in reported hate crimes against immigrants. The study focuses on the experiences of migrants in Lincolnshire, a region of England which has a significant migrant population, and which had one of the highest ‘leave’ votes. The focus on white migrants in this semi-rural setting offers an original perspective in the field of hate crime studies. We draw on semi-structured interviews and observations to identify temporal, spatial, and relational factors in responses to hate crime. We uncover the insecure occupation of a ‘third space’ constituted by material, discursive, and emotional practices. This positioning was destabilised post referendum; but there was also evidence of the operation of agency within processes of ‘othering’, suggesting a transition from victim identity to emergent political subject.

Keywords: Brexit; hate crime; migrant; othering; political subject; racism; resistance; third space; victim (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1177/1360780418811967

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