Borderline

Conversations about asylum and immigration in the UK feel noisy and divisive, whether at dinner, on the way to the shops or in the family group chat. Someone mentions asylum seekers, immigration, or ‘small boats’ and suddenly everyone's got an opinion and nobody's quite sure of their facts.

This book doesn’t tell you what to think, but it does point you in the right direction for how to talk about it. It suggests that we can’t hope to understand asylum and immigration in the UK without placing it in a global context; and it challenges the very idea that ‘pro’ and ‘anti’ migration stances even make sense.

It unpicks some of the misperceptions we hear almost daily and shows us why one of the most complex issues facing contemporary Britain needs to be treated differently, in pursuit of compromise, making those conversations a little less awkward.