The Links Between UK Native Employment Insecurities and Anti-Polish Migrant Moral Panics.

What is it about?

This article argues that the anti-Polish migrant campaign in Britain after 2004, which dramatised Polish migrants as ‘stealing the jobs’ of the native population, cannot just be analysed as an irrational ethnic bias but is rather an expression of the growing destabilising effects of employment insecurities within Western societies. It uses a framework that combines recent developments of the moral panic concept. With moral panic claims-making about Polish workers ‘taking British jobs’ and ‘abusing British social benefits’ perceived by the respondents themselves.

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Why is it important?

The work is unique as it provides the first research that explicitly analyses the disaffected dynamics of moral panic and neoliberal compromises.