“…Meer’s account thus charts similar territory to recent works by Valluvan (2019), Solomos (2022), and Back et al (2022), diagnosing exactly what went wrong in those two decades. Any complete analysis here would have to have add Brexit to these disasters — Meer avoids the subject — yet it was a clearly an event also driven substantially by racism and xenophobia (on this, see Favell 2020).…”