Open borders
Subtitle: the case against immigration controls
By: Teresa Hayter
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London; Sterling, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Immigrants -- Government policy -- Europe; Europe -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-176) and index
Table of contents: title: Migration, and migratory myths. World migration. Postwar migration to industrialised countries. Migration to Britain; title: Border controls. Racism. Early history of British immigration controls. Controls on commonwealth immigration. Fortress Europe; title: 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; title: Resistance. Resistance in Britain. The sans-papiers movement; title: 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