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Article: Immigration: visiting on a one-way ticket.(Geographical dossier)
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- July 1, 2004
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Once again, immigration has become a politically inflammable subject. Not since Enoch Powell was delivering his bloodthirsty (and inaccurate) race warnings in the 1960s has Britain been so agitated by the belief that it is a nation under siege. This summer's enlargement of the EU, coinciding as it does with the queue of asylum seekers snaking its way towards Britain, has sharpened the underlying sense of public unease. The more rancorous elements of the popular media have been quick to depict Britain as a historically settled nation in urgent peril from foreign invaders who are, almost by definition, lazy and unscrupulous scroungers.
The metaphors that govern the ...