From this clear-eyed, brave novelist we learn about the everyday humiliations, abuse and remarks that people of colour had to face after being invited to help run the NHS and transport system.
But when it comes to routine, everyday bureaucratic abuse of "foreigners" — especially brownish ones with exotic names — there are increasingly frequent instances of the kind of ignorant, bullying, Kafkaesque, unaccountable stupidity that one more often associates with thug regimes than with supposedly advanced democracies.
Others were receiving benefits, and many described everyday racial abuse and harassment, contributing to a sense of alienation.
This everyday segregation and abuse is part of a deeper, symbolic violence in which the domestic worker is a ghostly presence in the household and national psyche.
The language that they used in their poems ranges from courtly aureate English, to mixtures of English and Scots, to the broadest Scots vernacular, as their subjects range from moral allegory to everyday realism, flyting (abuse), or grotesquely comic Celtic fantasy.
Online, hundreds of thousands of Turkish women took to Twitter to share their experiences of everyday sexism and abuse.
Do you know that an average of 9 children in Malaysia suffered abuse everyday in 2011, and these are only the reported cases.
Did you know that an average of 7 children in Malaysia suffered abuse everyday in 2008, and these are only reported cases.
CATW and other opponents of decriminalization argue that such studies overplay the benefits of HIV reduction while ignoring the everyday exploitation and abuses that sex workers endure.
If you were a dog, would you like getting hit and abused everyday?
As Rob lies bleeding, I would hope that the residents of Ambridge and the show's listeners realise how common the domestic abuse of everyday folk is.
