“Colonial constructions of the ‘threat’ and who are considered to be of ‘good character’.” A threat to a modern construction called the nation state. Would a Labour government undo so many of cruel anti-migration laws and mark a more ‘progressive’ chapter in migrant rights? The Migrants’ Rights Network is not optimistic
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51