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The Hello and welcome to politics theory other. My name is Alex Doherty and this week I'll be talking with Will Davis about the win-rush scandal and the politics of the

Home Office.

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Today's interviews with Will Davis.

Will is reader in political economy at Goldsmith's College, part of the University of London.

He's the author of the

happiness industry and also the limit of neoliberalism. And most recently, he's the editor of

economic science fictions. Will has an article in the latest edition of the London Review of Books

on today's topic, which I strongly recommend checking out. It's called weaponising paperwork.

Unfortunately, there was a bit of a recording glitch and

some of Will's answer to my first question was lost. I'd begun by asking Will to briefly

outline the Conservative government's hostile environment migration policy and to describe its effects.

Unfortunately, his answer to the first part of that question has been lost, so the recording

now begins with Will describing some of the consequences of the policies contained in the 2014 and 2016 Immigration Act.

So what this was really doing was using all of these non-government services and some public

services to create, to make it very, very hard for people living in the

UK to settle down and live normal lives. It wasn't necessarily a way of trying to kind of count

them and deport them so much as just trying to create an environment in Britain, which didn't seem

to be welcoming and easy

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