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“Identification of those suspected to be ‘foreign’ was largely based on…appearance—namely skin color…and language/accent… It was common for a person’s darker skin colour to prompt questions about… nationality… despite…insistence that they were British citizens."
Policing Belonging: Race and Nation in the UK
Race, Criminal Justice, and Migration Control: Enforcing the Boundaries of Belonging
(Mary Bosworth, Alpa Parmar, Yolanda Vazquez, eds.),
2018
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