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United Kingdom
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Country Overview
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Targeted Groups | Perpetrators | Alert Status | Genocide Stage(s) |
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| Watch | Stage 3: Discrimination, Stage 4: Dehumanization, Stage 6: Polarization |
Details
Since 2010, the U.K. has become increasingly hostile to minorities, with the government and far-right parties demonizing refugees, immigrants, and the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) community. GRT people face high levels of normalized racism and discrimination. The government has now passed a law that not only cracks down on protests but also criminalizes aspects of many GRT people's nomadic identity and way of life. Additionally, the government has made multiple attacks on the rights and safety of refugees, including by signing a deal with Rwanda to offshore asylum processes for refugees considered "illegal." In the 2010s, the policy to create a "hostile environment" for "illegal" immigration caused damage for many people originally from the Caribbean in the Windrush Scandal. The U.K. has also seen high levels of transphobia in the media and political discourses, making life less safe for trans people. Meanwhile, Northern Ireland's peace process and recovery from "The Troubles" has been threatened by the U.K.'s exit from the European Union.
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Page last updated:
10/14/2022
Resources
Europe’s Problem With The Roma | Al Jazeera +
How the UK’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is 21st-century imperialism writ large | Parvati Nair, The Conversation
UK Traveller communities fear ‘cultural annihilation’ over upcoming trespass laws | Blyth Brentnall, openDemocracy