Abstract
In 2002, amid escalating public hysteria over the arrival of asylum seekers to Britain, and following riots in the Red Cross refugee camp in Sangatte, France, the UK Government published a White Paper entitled Secure Borders, Safe Haven: Integration with Diversity in Modern Britain.1 A supplement to the 2002 Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act, this wide-ranging document begins by asserting that ‘[t]he first challenge migration poses is to our concepts of national identity and citizenship’ (White Paper, p. 9). It proceeds to set migration within the context of globalization which, it explains: has opened up national cultures to diverse influences, and provided channels of mutual interaction between different parts of the world that literally know no boundaries. Social changes such as the decline of old certainties of class or place, and the emergence of new political institutions alongside the nation state, have also contributed to these changes in identity and belonging. (White Paper, pp. 9–10) KeywordsWhite PaperAsylum SeekerNational CultureForced MigrantStereoscopic VisionThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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