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Hello, you're very welcome to Long Reads, a Jacopan podcast where we look in depth at

political topics and thinkers.

My name is Daniel Finn and the features editor here at Jacopan, and I'll be presenting

the show.

It's now 10 years since Britain's home secretary Theresa May announced the so-called

Hostile Environment.

May's aggressive immigration policy led to the win-rush scandal, with dozens of people

unlawfully deported from Britain to countries they had left as children.

But official hostility to immigrants and refugees goes back long before May became a minister

of the crown, and the current British government of Boris Johnson and Pretty Patel is pushing

the envelope even further.

Our guest today for a conversation about the politics of immigration in modern Britain

is Maya Goodfellow.

She's an academic and the author of Hostile Environment, how immigrants became scapegoats.

One of the standard themes of the discourse around immigration in Britain is that it's

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