Anti-Migrant Words

DIVIDING LINES: How Anti-Migrant Agitators Use Words To Pull Us Apart draws on narrative analysis and social media data to investigate the language driving racist ideas into the UK mainstream conversation.

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The report decodes the rhetorical strategies of the most high‑profile anti‑migrant figures in the UK — including Nigel Farage, Laurence Fox, Katie Hopkins, Tommy Robinson and Dan Wootton — revealing how their words intentionally frame migrants, Muslims and Black and brown Britons as outsiders and threats.

Dividing Lines includes qualitative and quantitative analysis of more than 40 hours of video content by lead author and research specialist Nick Treloar and presents a shortlist of the words weaponised to cause racist harm.