ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book provides some racism and racialisation definitions and contexts, and reviews a set of connected frames through which our interviewees construct nation, immigration and the impacts of the latter on the former. It is clear that racism functions as an attempt to control the minds and bodies of those racialised as subaltern, be they of colour or not-quite-white. The moral economy of whiteness is a technology for making and sustaining borders. The book explores the key argument, based on hundreds of interviews with white UK people focusing on community, national and local identity, home and entitlement, during which a particular pattern of understandings of immigration and integration repeatedly emerged. It argues that making sense of Britishness, immigration and belonging using some frames enables people to establish themselves as positioned on ethical high ground; as systemically unfairly treated, beleaguered, culture-demeaned and disrespected.
