Deportation is freedom! [[electronic resource] ] : the Orwellian world of immigration controls / / Steve Cohen

• Autore: Cohen Steve <1945->
• Pubblicazione: London, : Jessica Kingsley, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (226 p.)
• Disciplina: 325.109051
• Soggetto topico: Emigration and immigration - Government policy; Emigration and immigration - Government policy - Great Britain
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Emigration and immigration Government policy
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: COVER; DEPORTATION IS FREEDOM!:THE ORWELLIAN WORLD OF IMMIGRATION CONTROLS; CONTENTS; PREFACE:THE IRRATIONALITY OF IMMIGRATION CONTROLS; 1. Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four and Immigration Controls: An Overview of Language and Politics; 2. Interactive Racism: How Immigration Controls Operate as a Gameshow; 3. Newspeak, New Labour and Old Racism: How Immigration Controls Corrupt Language; 4. From Newspeak to Amtssprache: How Racism is Sanitized by Bereaucratic Jargon ; 5. From Amtssprache to Doublethink: How Bureaucratic Jargon Enforces Reality Control ; 6. From Doublethink to the Programme that Dare Not Speak Its Name: How Ideological Opposition to Immigration Controls is itself Controlled and Silenced 7. Proles and Poor Laws: How the Undocumented are Outside the Welfare System; 8. We Are All Immigration Officers Now: How Big Brother is Everywhere ; 9. Through the Memory Hole: How History is Rewritten and the Deportees Forgotten; 10. From International Exploitation to International Resistance: How the Undocumented Fight Back Globally; 11. The Planet Without a Visa; APPENDIX 1: A VOICE FROM THE ALIENS; APPENDIX 2: NO ONE IS ILLEGAL!; NOTES ; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: Deportation is Freedom! is a searing critique of today's immigration systems, a lively yet thought-provoking read that will captivate anyone who cares about the immigration systems that are shaping our world today. It will be of particular interest to social workers and all people politically engaged in immigration campaigning.
• Titolo autorizzato: Deportation is freedom
• ISBN: 1-280-53813-9; 9786610538133; 1-84642-238-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783431003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II