Clare Griffiths' Outputs (2)

Strangers in our midst: Immigration, social capital and segmented conflict (2022)
Journal Article
Griffiths. (2022). Strangers in our midst: Immigration, social capital and segmented conflict. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 22(4), 559-580. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895820986226

Putnam famously stated in his ‘hunkering down’ thesis that residents of diverse communities experiencing immigration retreat into their homes inhibiting the production of ‘social capital’. Immigration is therefore often posited to disrupt communities... Read More about Strangers in our midst: Immigration, social capital and segmented conflict.

Continued and intensified hostility: The problematisation of immigration in the UK government’s 2021 New Plan for Immigration (2022)
Journal Article
GRIFFITHS, C., & TREBILCOCK, J. (2022). Continued and intensified hostility: The problematisation of immigration in the UK government’s 2021 New Plan for Immigration. Critical Social Policy, 43(3), 401-422. https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183221109133

Drawing on Bacchi’s (2009) ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ framework, this article provides a critical analysis of HM Government’s (2021a) New Plan for Immigration. We explore how immigration is problematised, the assumptions that underlie th... Read More about Continued and intensified hostility: The problematisation of immigration in the UK government’s 2021 New Plan for Immigration.