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Abstract
Assessing the impact of the increasing severity of border controls since they were first introduced, Teresa Hayter makes the controversial case for their abolition.
Focussing on postwar immigration controls, especially the use of such controls against the peoples of former European colonies and East Europeans, and their effects on asylum seekers, Hayter examines the recent history of European coordination of border controls and the notion of ‘Fortress Europe’.
The new edition brings this seminal work up to date with a lengthy preface exploring how the practices of the British government over the past few years has continued the process Hayter outlines in the main text – of abusive and irrational border controls and the criminalisation of entire communities. This second edition also updates the bibliography and list of campaigning groups, and ends with a new manifesto for a world without borders, declaring 'no one is illegal!'
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction | 1 | ||
| 1 Migration, and migratory myths | 8 | ||
| World migration | 8 | ||
| Postwar migration to industrialised countries | 10 | ||
| Migration to Britain | 13 | ||
| 2 Border controls | 21 | ||
| Racism | 21 | ||
| Early history of British immigration controls | 36 | ||
| Controls on Commonwealth immigration | 43 | ||
| Fortress Europe | 57 | ||
| 3 Refugees: Tightening the screw | 64 | ||
| The debasing of refugee rights | 64 | ||
| Legislation and legal processes in Britain | 76 | ||
| The criminalisation of refugees | 95 | ||
| Destitution | 105 | ||
| Detention | 112 | ||
| Campsfield immigration detention centre | 123 | ||
| 4 Resistance | 134 | ||
| Resistance in Britain | 134 | ||
| The sans- papiers movement | 142 | ||
| 5 Re- open the borders | 149 | ||
| Immigration controls and human rights | 149 | ||
| Immigration controls do not work | 152 | ||
| Immigration and jobs, wages and conditions | 155 | ||
| Immigration and public expenditure | 161 | ||
| Immigration controls and racism | 163 | ||
| Migration and the Third World | 166 | ||
| Free Movement | 171 | ||
| Appendix | 173 | ||
| Bibliography | 184 | ||
| List of organisations and campaigns | 189 | ||
| Index | 193 | ||
| Tables | 10 | ||
| 1.1 Foreign population as a percentage of total resident population in European countries, 1997 | 10 | ||
| 1.2 Estimated net immigration from the new Commonwealth from 1953 to the introduction of controls in mid- 1962 | 19 | ||
| 1.3 Net migration to/ from Britain, 1871-1991 | 20 | ||
| 3.1 Asylum applications in Britain in the 1990s | 70 |