Boiling Point: How the UK and US Governments Crafted Immigration Environments of Extreme Unwelcoming in the Brexit and Trump Eras

Beth A. Katz, MPP, MSW, is a PhD candidate in Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh and a social inclusion consultant and practitioner. She will share key findings from her doctoral research investigating how the UK and the US Governments achieved immigration environments of extreme unwelcoming in the Brexit and Trump eras and the effects of this on efforts within those countries to welcome and include immigrants. Distilled through the metaphor of bringing a pot to boil on a stove top, this research charts the distinct paths of the UK Government’s ‘slow boil’ graduated intensification and the US Government’s ‘fast boil’ rapid transformation that ultimately allowed each government to bring their country’s immigration environment to a boiling point of extreme unwelcoming in these time periods. It also profiles essential components of the immigration approaches used by the Brexit and Trump Governments, identifying shared features as well as distinctive ones.

 

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