Early in 2018 two campaigning organisations, British Futures and Hope Not Hate, got together to write a report for the Home Office called the National Conversation on Immigration. They conducted an online survey, but also eventually aimed to survey a representative sample of 4,000 people and hold 120 stakeholder meetings and citizenship panels in 60 different parts of the UK in 2018. You might think about how and why results might differ from an online survey and one conducted with a representative sample of the population. Their interim report covered findings from their first 30 site visits. Each citizenship panel involved ten ‘broadly representative’ local people.
The interim report concludes that the UK public sees immigration on the national scale but also through a ‘local lens’ that reflects their everyday experiences. Getting immigration and integration working well at a local level is the key to building public support for the handling of future immigration policy. In the three detailed sections shown here, we explore some of the interesting findings from these panel discussions.
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