Britain’s forced-marriage agenda is a cover for excluding black and migrant people

Evidence

In the final analysis, the aim of the Government is to keep black and migrant people out of Britain – through strict racist immigration and asylum laws and policies – not to protect women and others from human rights violations. If this were not the case, then liberalising the immigration laws would in fact indicate a greater willingness on the part of the government to prevent forced marriage. If there are no immigration rules to by-pass, then what need is there to force a woman into marriage in order to enter the country? — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 327

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the thesis of the whole book — that Muslim eviction from Western law masquerades as protection — and connects to critical race scholarship on the UK’s ‘hostile environment’ policy.