.The year 2016 will always be remembered as a watershed moment in the West. Brexit and Trump’s election signified a widespread shift toward right-wing populismThe manufactured anxieties of immigration have not just been orchestrated in the UK through the seismic rise of Reform UK, but interestingly throughout Europe, with nations such as Italy, Hungary, France, and Germany, to name a few, all constructing narratives of minority groups as an ‘enemy within’.