Open borders : the case against immigration controls /
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| Author / Creator: | Hayter, Teresa. |
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Imprint: | London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press, c2004. |
| Description: | xxvi, 201 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5277733 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Migration, and migratory myths
- World migration
- Postwar migration to industrialised countries
- Migration to Britain
- 2. Border controls
- Racism
- Early history of British immigration controls
- Controls on Commonwealth immigration
- Fortress Europe
- 3. Refugees: Tightening the screw
- The debasing of refugee rights
- Legislation and legal processes in Britain
- The criminalisation of refugees
- Destitution
- Detention
- Campsfield immigration detention centre
- 4. Resistance
- Resistance in Britain
- The sans-papiers movement
- 5. Re-open the borders
- Immigration controls and human rights
- Immigration controls do not work
- Immigration and jobs, wages and conditions
- Immigration and public expenditure
- Immigration controls and racism
- Migration and the Third World
- Free Movement
- Bibliography
- List of organisations and campaigns
- Index
- Tables
- 1.1. Foreign population as a percentage of total resident population in European countries, 1997
- 1.2. Estimated net immigration from the new Commonwealth from 1953 to the introduction of controls in mid-1962
- 1.3. Net migration to/from Britain, 1871-1991
- 3.1. Asylum applications in Britain in the 1990s
