When Leavis wrote in 1972 that “the obvious truth stands there too starkly to be ignored: we might multiply our intake of immigrants by fifty and make no difference to the problem of over-population in the undeveloped countries—though we should ensure catastrophic transformations in our own,” he anticipated contemporary right-wing populism with its simplistic diagnoses of contemporary ills caused by immigration and cultural dilution.

XREF: Connects 1970s anti-immigration rhetoric to contemporary populist discourse, showing a continuity in nativist argumentative patterns.

Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, loc. 102