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following a string of protest calling for the removal with far right groups exploiting local grievances to boost their own agenda. today we look at the abuse and intimidation of vulnerable people are experiencing and ask what can be done to keep them safe? ah, joining us today from london, diane taylor, a journalist at the guardian, who writes on human rights racism and civil liberties. visa cressy, chief executive officer at migrants, right? network and n g o advocating for migrants and refugees, she's in london. and sophia con roof a researcher at hope, not hate. who has examined far right groups across europe. of course, you can also join today's discussion, just send us your comments and questions through our live you to chat. sophia, i want to ask you so many different angles here, so many things to discuss. what's the headline here for you,

based on your reporting? ok, so the research i would, sam paying the most attention to right now is how, how it's escalating, how the number of, for example, fall, right? activists who go to hotels to harass asylum seekers have doubled between 20212022. so 102 percent increase, this kind of shows how important that part of their work is for all right, activist and it really works. this is the thing that gives them views and helps them spread, you know, tension into the local community. so, you know, one of their, one of their tactics is going into a local community and spreading leaflets, you know, with no rumors about not rumors, stereotypes and conspiracy theories about fighting age. men coming for you know, to harm and kidnap your white girls. and that sort of rhetoric. so i would, i would definitely say that's an important headline. and as you were speaking there,

we were looking at a map that showed just how much this has been proliferating and sort of spreading across the u. k. we also have, there is the map, as you can see, i think in just a year, i mean 100 percent, maybe 500 percent increase in certain areas. i mean it's how can you can hear what looking at this, just all those dots for audience. i mean, this is not an isolated issue, right? no, but we have to, as you said, keep it in context. so a 102 percent increase. the other huge tech, the number that's the increase of fall, right? activists going to these are, you know, as asylum seeker, an accommodation running, stop harassing the asylum seekers pretending to be, you know, local journalist or, you know, trying all sorts of different methods, right? but they're relatively few. i mean, in the grand scheme of things, they're relatively few people doing this. you know, for example,

a big increase in number is a woman named amanda smith who goes around doing this and she visited a 124 hotels in the last year. but these videos of then spread online in anti migrant groups. you know the far right groups and that, that's the part where there's, you know, a huge amount of misinformation room is going on and a small number of people impacting or having a much wider impact on line. i know you also mentioned those leaflets. diana, i want to share with our audience this one, for example, people accusing the tory party and these 4 right extremist groups of kind of using the same language. if you will hear saying stop the invasion as you can see there in yellow saying they must act now calling for people to go protest, of course that language. stop the invasion coming straight out of the mouth of a certain politicians. i just want to ask you, diane, i mean, reporting on this consistently as you have, how would you frame this in terms of the crossover between the far right

politicians and the media sort of in inflaming this situation? will certainly the, the current home secretaries to our brother, mine has been criticized of using inflammatory language such as the word invasion, referring to the asylum seekers who arrived in the u. k. on small, but as he say that the same language that the far right is using. but what, what we're not seeing from mainstream politicians is any very strong rebuttal of, of what the far right to doing. and that's concerning the far right. i'm going to be very active at the moment, but that have always been around and what,

what we need is for our mainstream petitions to put forward acura factual narrative, which put the numbers arriving into context and, and debug the conflation all yeah. see that the far right, keep continually thoughtful. right? and i want to talk about more what they're actually complaining about specifically before we do that, i'd be remiss not to ask you and to share with our audience sort of what it's like when these protests happen. so take a look at just to give you a sense really of what it looks like. this is far right. protesters outside a hotel for asylum seekers in nose li, just outside of liverpool. take a look. oh no, i need

a for alpha drop with if i'm not mistaken because i see or shaking your head there, but, but is this sentiment directed towards muslims in particular? i mean talk a little bit about the intersectionality of this phenomenon. yeah, i would say that that's been missing from the narratives as well, even from the migrant refugees. that to really know, understanding that targeting islam a phobia play you have to kind of ongoing under terrorism agenda that you know, prevent in itself. i think the majority of the people in some of the hotels are men. they're single men. they have to be for muslim majority countries. and so

it's very easy for the far right to use a narrative of sufferers. you mention men coming fighting men. but also there is a mis lama, sophia phobic, kind of narrative on the underlying that. i think what's really fighting, i'm shaking my head because i can't imagine and being stuck inside a space where you've come to get safety and sanctuary. and then you'll threatened on your doorstep again. and i'm speaking to someone who's been supporting refugees in coastal talent and she said the fear that they, they have questioning why they've come to the u. k. now why come here? wait for them? see? so really and so, and you know, times for them and this is on top of them having to deal with issues like the earthquake in syria also, you know, having to contemplate, well, i've got this happening here at my job. and i got to think of right,

right. what's happening with my, with my family and friends. so yeah, it's really worrying. and as i said like there isn't not rebuttal, it's not coming from the government for sure. but it's also not really coming from the opposition, and that's really worrying when we don't have any really anyone really champing kind of refugees rights and challenging what the fall roy. and i see sophia says that you want to jump in the fly. go ahead. yeah, go ahead. no. at 1st. no, no, please. you're here to import your wisdom with us. go ahead. i don't know about the wisdom. this is just me saying this is absolutely right when it comes to when she was talking about this, this fear that the asylum seekers are having in the hotels when these types of protest happen. i think communication is such an important part of this whole issue

or more like the lack of communication. so, you know, within the migration sector it's very difficult because these are kind of new, uncertain times in terms of, of the rise of the far right activity. government really has to do a lot more in terms of safeguards and in terms of, you know, being very bad at communicating with, you know, the locals in the, in the area. and this all kind of creates the situations we saw in that video right then. and there are so many more videos i want to get to, but if you are want to ask you as well, some of the comments coming in on you tube of from peter carson for example, saying it's costing the u. k. taxpayer 35000000 british pounds a week to house them in hotels. we have good as pittman saying, are they really far right and fascists or simply concerned locals that have had enough of the illegal entries? what it, what is your reaction to that fizzle? i am really wearing every one, again,

pooled into the same track on the same narrative, right? it's about absolutely. we don't feel that anyone should be housed. it's not how big house in the hotel you'll be and accommodated these homes that they're creating that being forced to live for to live. but they don't have control over where they get sent. how long they going to be there. and for people to say, oh, are they really, there is a mix of people being boston to these towns to create these love. so the father and mobilizing what they're doing is they all as they've done historically, is mobilizing fluency, the disenfranchised right. that people feel forgotten by the u. k. and particularly after pregnant. sorry, i don't want to put words in your mouth, but in my mind, i'm wondering, you know, does break that factor into this? absolutely. i mean,

do you remember the posters that module fraud was kind of sunday next day, which was like dreams of men and they were brown and black men and saying that this is what would happen if we continue to how freedom of movement. basically the, the issue that we have the, it's not races to talk about immigration, right? so that's why you can pick on refuse, because it's not visual about refugee policies or talk about people in legal illegals. if you doing this against racialized communities, is it seems to be that the state goes to the moment stuff. yeah. go ahead. yeah, sorry, i can't help but jumped in again. just about those comments, which i think are very important comments, because that comments are being asked a lot online due to the way things have been framed within the media within politics. but the locals have genuine concerns and they compete, you know, they're competing the just him, it consumes based on, you know,

the poor communication. how things have been carried out, you know, often suddenly assigned them see, because i just being put into hotels that you know, that they have had little information about this happening and it, it can be worrying and you know, all of that is very true. but that doesn't negate the fact that the far right of trying to exploit that are trying to parachute into these communities creat canton . and from that uncertainty from, from those concerns create tension and hate. and i mean, it just takes one person, i mean, indo in last october, we had andrew leak who is the guy who threw petrol bombs. that's in michael processing center. so this and he, he was consuming a huge amount of far right material, an anti migrant material. so it just takes one of them in that kind of rhetoric and civilian please please, but i made very quickly just i want to get one else's voice in here. who is one of

those people we've been describing who have those grievances, perhaps even legitimate concerns, like many others, but it's again the way this has been communicated and sort of the misinformation. so let's take a listen to one angry local woman. i'd rather take a listen i have to leave my house. yes, because it got to pay for them to be a to get more money to do what they don't have to do with. ready any of, and 12 year old. now, diana, i know sophia, you want to jump in here. so we'll go to you and then to diane, because he hasn't spoken in a while. and i want to ask you, diane, what you make of all that information that's being spewed and what the danger is there. but sophia, sophia, sorry,

i will be very quick. i just want to say this video perfectly encapsulates the conspiracy theories and the, the. c type of rhetoric far right? migrant activists are spreading align. i mean, the videos they share, you know, trying to harass stuff and assign them because it's all about comparing it to the homeless people in the u. k. comparing it to the cost of living crisis saying look there in 5 star hotels look at those new bikes who gave this to them and then comparing it to how people are struggling, you know, local british people. yeah. so i just wanted to say that video was perfectly made the point and then what do you think about video? yeah, i say i'm, it's very concerning. no, no factual basis for what the woman was saying. that there are 2 troops that the far right to repeating over and over again. at the moment. one is the asylum seekers of stealing the homes of british veterans who

a force to sleep on the streets because asylum seekers are stealing their homes. that's completely factually incorrect. every birth is best for and has an entitlement to housing, the funds he has don't have the 2nd. in fact, she incorrect point is about sexual abuse, perpetrated by mail asylum seekers against white british girls. usually, girls who are under the age of 18 and we've, we've seen repeated examples. what will fact, suppose there's facts where the forward has been pushed out and then collapsed and, and found to have no factual basis. well, what happened in the case of knows me. well,

of around the strange video clip was circulated, allegedly, a white school girl being propositioned by. yeah. we can, we actually have, if you want to look on my screen right here, this is on twitter. as you can see, forgive me. this is, i think the video that you're referring to a young man knows lee outside the seats hotel, approaching a 15 year old girl. again, these kinds of things are, are fodder for, for driving a lot of these mentalities. obviously it's not something that i guess i don't want to get bogged down in this, and i don't want to just over share all these videos that we have. but i do think it might be helpful for us to look at this one video from i believe this is be at the far right group that we've been talking about at a dunstable meeting. this is from twitter showing a member of the far a group of patriotic alternative, sort of taking the my mike and i'm yet a meeting of, of local residents kind of, um, yes, sounding some alarms take

a lesson now don't take us for fools. when you say that these paper refugees, we know they are illegal migrants. if these people are refugees, what do they fling from? it's very telling that we never told what they are fleeing from of a plane from what countries are they coming from? what are they fleeing? what persecution? so because i'm curious, you know that line. i've heard it in the us in the u. k. all over the world really well, are they really fleeing and is there a war? i mean, even in our youtube chat right here, take a look at this lion junior, echoing some of what we heard from that foreign member saying, who are these people, the immigrants? what country are they from mainly and the u. k. economy is in good right now for many form foreigner. started questioning why they're there and where they're coming from. what you make of, of what the far at member was trying to do there at that, at that protest. i mean, that, that the stereotyping and their base in china with hate and they're trying to raise

basically what the u. k. government has been involved in the past, you know, we have a number of rules that we've participated in afghanistan and iraq. that's where people are coming from. where we've also been involved involved for example. that's where people the thing fleeing from. we would also say people are seeing from the negative colonialism, harry and isn't. this isn't a yes. so the day to is there, it's not difficult to find the homework. very transparent about where people come from and they have high exceptions, right? so i think it's like in syria, eritrea stone and libya. that's where people are coming from. i think what i wanted to really ask is, i mentioned know that people have the different concerns and small towns about people coming into the household. and i'd like to understand what this concerns,

all right, because it very much mimics historically when brown and black people moving into white majority areas, the same on grade and how wifes like, you know, came and came about. and so i, you know, what isn't that, isn't it based on your racism? i appreciate you making that connection. i think too often things are conflated or at least perceptions can dictate a person's reality. too often we've seen that maybe get the better of a lot of people and because we've been talking about the mainstreaming of sort of, how can we put an anti brown and black or anti immigrant sentiment? i do want to share a clip from january, featuring someone who were calling hi out, or who is. it's not her real name. i should say she's in the silent speaker from eritrea. and she talks about the difficulties that she's encountered. take a listen. every day i stand up

until morning and i even fulls a home in the hotel. i see the earliest a day. no thing to do. nothing. no school, no home, no or no anything. sometimes i see in my fall on facebook or that in youtube, i see is in use and it does get to is not good for today. lucy. g. other the people that for me not good severe. what can be done? i mean, what should be prioritized by the government, by others in the country to actually protect not just asylum seekers, but sort of tried to limit and contain a lot of this hate speech as so i feel some of the things have been touched upon already, but generally language is very important. so as, as we talked about, the home secretary using the word invasion to talk about asylum seekers and

migrants are this is, you know, the type of language we see a within that far, right. so there's this inflammatory language that's been used within sections of the, you know, the politicians by in the media. that's definitely something that needs to drastically improve in how we discuss this issue. because it is an issue that the country was very interested in and severe. i have to ask also, you know, looking at these sort of headlines, care storm or says there's a case for gps tagging on some asylum seekers. of course, i know a coalition of charities warned that this policy would amount to psychological torture. but, but just the fact that this is where the conversation is physically, what do you think is missing here? i mean, is the government and police forces? are they taking the far right threat seriously? and when you see these sort of considerations of tagging people, what does it tell you about how they're trying to approach this problem?

as amendment tells me that there's no to the only people in attempting my migrant refugees, right? so those. busy in the rules so you know, members of the public doesn't really feel like the opposition understand the implications and the impact some of the. busy suggestions have, like, as you said, targeting is an appalling, it's almost like a criminalization of migration of seeking refugee status and protection. surely. where are people to come here to the country? not penalize for having chosen the u. k. for that. i want to just echo like sophia, she said, the language has to be talent. and i mean, i'm going to plug i was massive campaign, which is doing it this way on picking all the language that we have have as in all migration. now it says on the phone kinda is trying to offering alternatives

and what we need is really the opposition politicians to take that seriously and think about the consequences of that was really, you know, those words really do matter. and again, a stuffy pointed out the, the goal, i think that they pack in you know, the question detention center was a key example of how soon as you say and run and electric. it has, has been an a consequence. and then action on it could be deadly. my sir, i'm just jump in again. we're running out of time. so in 30 seconds, please go ahead. i'll take less, hopefully, just one. we're talking about language. it's and who says what be interesting to point out. just a bit of context for the man who was speaking in the patriotic al tentative clip in the church. i mean, patriotic, called, tentative is a fall right? small but luscious group. i mean it's lead us sam call. it has praised hitler and

you know, i've supported him. so we were talking by extreme and yet they've managed through these protests to kind of present themselves as protectors of the locals. and you know, we just care about our own people. so it's very important we make sure we know it, and it is important, and it is important so that we will continue to cover this story and i want to thank you. fortunately, that's all the time we have for today's show. but sophia and chris, i thank you so much for being with us. you can always find us online at stream dot al jazeera dot com. thanks for watching. ah ah,

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