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Autore: | Hayter Teresa |
Titolo: | Open borders : the case against immigration controls / / Teresa Hayter |
Pubblicazione: | London ; ; Ann Arbor, Mich. : , : Pluto Press, , 2004 |
Edizione: | 2nd ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (208 pages) |
Disciplina: | 325.4 |
Soggetto topico: | Immigrants - Government policy - Europe |
Soggetto geografico: | Europe Emigration and immigration Government policy |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-188) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- 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 -- Appendix -- 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Open borders |
ISBN: | 1-78371-856-0 |
1-84964-247-8 | |
1-281-75045-X | |
9786611750459 | |
1-4356-6156-7 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910825458303321 |
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