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Entitlement and belonging: social restructuring and multicultural Britain

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Race & Class, Volume: 58, Issue: 2, Pages: 37 - 54

Swansea University Author: Jon Burnett Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1177/0306396816657723

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In May 2016, two flagship measures of the current Conservative UK government, the Housing and Planning Act 2016 and the Immigration Act 2016 were passed. Based on research carried out before the Acts’ passage, the article shows how both pieces of legislation work in tandem to reinforce and exacerbat...

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Published in: Race & Class
ISSN: 0306-3968 1741-3125
Published: London Sage Publications 2016
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