Kirsten Forkert Knihy

Explores how UK politicians and the press mobilise support for `austerity' through appealing to socially conservative conceptions of work and community. It examines the techniques of anti-austerity social movements in challenging the prevailing mood of guilt, nostalgia and resentment and how these may offer radical alternatives for social change.

Based on interviews and workshops with refugees in both countries, the book develops the concept of migrantification - in which people are made into migrants by the state, the media and members of society. -- .