'The brightest and best', us - and the rest: desirable and undesirable migration in EU referendum leaflets

摘要

How did the leaflets circulated before the EU referendum talk about migrants? Alexandra Bulat (UCL SSEES) examines the LSE's collection and finds - on both sides - a distinction between 'desirable' and 'undesirable' migrants, whether from within or outside the EU. At no point were the views of the migrants themselves heard. Researchers agree that immigration, alongside economics, were the ...