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‘You can’t even talk English, so don’t talk!’ How linguistic racism impacts immigrants in the UK

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par Zanib Rasool, Doctoral Researcher in Education, University of Sheffield
Christine Makuve, Doctoral Researcher in Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh

When Holan Liang was 17, she spent her holidays working at her father’s computer parts company. In her recent book, A Sense of Belonging: How to Find Your Way in a Fractured World, Liang, now a psychiatrist, recounts the racist ways in which customers would respond to her family’s Chinese roots.

Her father, who had a PhD in hydraulic engineering, was called “a useless…

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