Immigration politics and Islamophobia drove the Brexit outcome in 2016.

Evidence

In the wake of the burgeoning Islamophobia of recent decades and of the key role that the issue of immigration played in the British public’s decision to vote itself out of Europe in the Brexit referendum of 2016, it would certainly seem that even stormier clouds are now gathering, and the toxic appeal of racism, right across Europe, is all too evident. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 157

Categorization

• XREF: Direct bridge to the reader’s Islamophobia readings: positions Brexit within the genealogy of national-identity exclusion. — connects to: Leave voters’ dismay shows Brexit was not real working-class agency — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2044; Working-class Brexit votes were not self-conscious class agency — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2044