No One Ever Told Them To ‘Go Home.’ Then Brexit Happened.

LOADING ERROR LOADING In 2000, Siri Abrahamson moved to London from Sweden. “Over the last three years, we’ve witnessed already fragile race relations in Britain erode, and our research finds that the majority of BAME Britons see the state of race relations today worse than five years ago.” Hope Not Hate’s research has shown that half of British citizens from BAME backgrounds have either witnessed or experienced racist comments being made in public, with a third experiencing or witnessing violence. “There is a real need to recognize and respond to fears in BAME communities about the impact of Brexit, especially a hard Brexit.” “These ‘go home’ narratives have no place in Britain, and need to be eradicated from our media and political debate,” Carter said. Jack Taylor via Getty Images Iman Atta OBE, the director of Muslim organisation Tell MAMA which monitors Islamophobic incidents said, “The fact that we have heard from victims since Brexit that they should ‘go home’ when they are born and brought up in the UK shows that for some, Brexit is associated with race and culture.” “Brexit is about leaving the European Union and valuing each other as we try and go it alone,” she added. They then turned around to each other saying, ‘It’s come to us asking for English grammar advice from you, and it’s our first language.’” As well as being subjected to direct comments, Nikolai said he had been alone in a room with the same colleagues as they spoke at length about “Polish people coming to the UK as health tourists,” and described feeling “persecuted, excluded and picked on by bigots.” “It breaks my heart to be so passively aggressively targeted and have to put up with this,” he said.