Phil Hubbard, "Borderland: Identity and Belonging at the Edge of England" (Manchester UP, 2022)
New Books in Western European Studies
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The Kenyan Refugee Action Network
The royalty for my book is going to the kent refuge action network. And i felt it was really important, for a variety of reasons, that i acknowledged there the work that they're doing. There are examples in the book that i give where people were walking the beaches trying to push back migrants, refugees, whom they saw as invaders. In the 19 seventies, those fleeing the vetna war fond a home there was, there was accommodation provided for them in the town of hythe. I found with those living alongside the napier barracks in folkestone, which has been used to hold recent refugees. A lot of people who live near that are really worried and are really opposed to
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