Kostas Maronitis is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Leeds Trinity University. Denny Pencheva is Lecturer in European Politics and Public Policy at University College London.
“Theoretically outstanding and empirically informed, Maronitis and Pencheva present us with a magisterial account of the societal and moral concerns of restrictive immigration regimes, with rapid rescaling of work conducted by robots, AI and algorithms. While immigrants labour in dirty, dangerous and demeaning conditions, automation solutions alleviate – though also replace – (the need for) migrant workers.” Roxana Barbulescu, University of Leeds ""The story told in Robots and Immigrants is not just of how in Brexit Britain key themes have coalesced to define political discourses and policies, but how new technologies and strangers continue to animate excitement and fear. Tapping into core sociological problems, the book updates their tenets through a detailed, contextually attentive examination of the passions and the interests still animating modern societies.” Gregory Schwartz, University of Bristol