Rebekah Diski

Rebekah Diski is researching a PhD on trade unions, work and climate breakdown.

From The Blog
9 August 2023

To distract us from the government’s deliberate despoliation of our social infrastructure, we are told – in increasingly dehumanising language – that migrants ‘drain’ public services or that they threaten the vulnerable (for whom they happen to be caring). The strategy relies on the constant reinforcement of difference between ‘migrants’ and ‘ordinary working people’, as if there were no overlap between these groups. 

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