There’s a genre of article that’s begun to appear in British media with increasing regularity. It focuses on the experience of migrants at the hands of the UK government, and highlights some specific example or another with the expectation that readers will consider the subject’s treatment a grave unfairness. The person featured in the article is always caucasian.
Generally, they’re a professional of some sort – a software engineer, perhaps, or a neuroscientist. Without fail, they hail from a wealthy, white-majority country. Normally somewhere in Western Europe, but occasionally Australia, New Zealand or the USA.
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