‘A Hostile Environment: Language, Race, Surveillance and the Media’ is highlighted by QARN

Friends warn of media language on migrants

‘A Hostile Environment: Language, Race, Surveillance and the Media’ is highlighted by QARN

by Rebecca Hardy 15th August 2025

The Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network (QARN) has highlighted a report which says that a pattern of ‘hostile language’ in the media and parliament is more likely to describe people of colour as immigrants, or show less sympathy.