%0 Journal Article
%T Northern Ireland and the limits of the race relations framework
%A Chris Gilligan
%J Capital & Class
%@ 2041-0980
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0309816818818090
%X Anti-immigrant racism has become a prominent issue in Northern Ireland since 1998. It is an issue that is routinely understood and tackled through a ¡®race relations¡¯ framework. The first part of this article outlines and discusses the data on immigration and on recorded racist incidents in Northern Ireland, within a race relations framework. The second part of the article argues that the race relations framework is inherently limited because it treats racism as a crime to be punished, rather than as a manifestation of contradictions within capitalism as a social system
%K immigration
%K migrant workers
%K multiculturalism
%K race relations framework
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0309816818818090