This chapter provides an overview of the rapidly changing social and political context which
is driving a contested social media landscape and explores examples of othering and …

The state-induced anti-immigration environment and the normalisation of xenophobia in
political and media discourses have led to the increased othering of European migrants in …

Explorations of Islamophobia or anti-Muslim racism predominantly focus on issues of
security policy and media representations, set against the backdrop of the global “War on …

Although a growing body of scholarship seeks to understand the motivations behind the
'Brexit'vote–including that which centralises explorations of racism, nationalism and post …

The UK's 2016 EU referendum and its aftermath have seen the eruption back into
mainstream political and media discourse of spatial language and representations. As …

Radical-right behavior is increasing across Western democracies, often very quickly.
Previous research has shown, however, that political attitudes and preferences do not …

In this article, we look at the role of time and temporalities in migrant responses to the result
of the 2016 European Union referendum in the United Kingdom, that is, Brexit. Although …

This study examines the temporal clustering of hate crimes in Scotland, England and Wales
in the wake of the Brexit vote and the 2017 terrorist attacks. Using an interrupted time-series …

Did the unprecedented victory of the right-wing, Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP) in the 2014 national elections in India increase hate crimes against religious …

In this article, we examine anti-refugee hate crime in the wake of the large influx of refugees
to Germany in 2014 and 2015. By exploiting institutional features of the assignment of …