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Elvia Wilk is a writer and editor living in New York and Berlin, covering art, architecture, urbanism, and technology. She contributes to publications like Frieze, Artforum, e-flux, die Zeit, the Architectural Review, and Metropolis. She's currently a contributing editor at e-flux Journal and Rhizome.
Where's The Outrage About Family Separations In The UK?
No, it’s not just the Trump administration separating immigrant families in the USA. The UK government does the same thing—and has long been doing it.
Theresa May’s “hostile environment” policy allows the detention of immigrants without their children, detention cases that are often technically at odds with UK law. When contented against, the procedure has been hushed up by confidentiality agreements and out-of-court settlements.
This secrecy is partly why, despite the hundreds of cases of parents being separated from their kids within the UK, May has received little national or international criticism for family separations. But as news continues to break about what’s happening, one certainly wonders why there continues to be such a lack of outrage. Is there something about the UK news cycle to blame? Or is it rather that UK citizens don't see much to be angry about?
