%0 Journal Article
%T ¡®I Will Not Be Thrown Out of the Country Because I¡¯m an Immigrant¡¯: Eastern European Migrants¡¯ Responses to Hate Crime in a Semi
%A Alex Black
%A Jackie Goode
%A Karen Lumsden
%J Sociological Research Online
%@ 1360-7804
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1360780418811967
%X This article examines Eastern European migrants¡¯ experiences of and responses to hate crime. Following the UK European Union Membership Referendum (¡®Brexit¡¯ vote), there was an increase in reported hate crimes against immigrants. The study focuses on the experiences of migrants in Lincolnshire, a region of England which has a significant migrant population, and which had one of the highest ¡®leave¡¯ votes. The focus on white migrants in this semi-rural setting offers an original perspective in the field of hate crime studies. We draw on semi-structured interviews and observations to identify temporal, spatial, and relational factors in responses to hate crime. We uncover the insecure occupation of a ¡®third space¡¯ constituted by material, discursive, and emotional practices. This positioning was destabilised post referendum; but there was also evidence of the operation of agency within processes of ¡®othering¡¯, suggesting a transition from victim identity to emergent political subject
%K Brexit
%K hate crime
%K migrant
%K othering
%K political subject
%K racism
%K resistance
%K third space
%K victim
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1360780418811967