Deportation is freedom!
Subtitle: the Orwellian world of immigration controls
By: Steve Cohen.
Edition: 1st American pbk. ed.
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781843102946
Subjects: Orwell, George, 1903-1950; Immigration -- Government policy; Immigration -- Government policy -- Great Britain
Description: "Deportation is Freedom! is a searing critique which exposes striking analogies between immigration systems and controls and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, the classic oppressive vision of totalitarianism, nationalism and terror." "Steve Cohen takes a fresh look at the ethical and political problems surrounding immigration controls. He highlights the corruption of language for political purposes, revealing a culture immersed in 'Big Brother', 'newspeak', 'Doublethink, ' 'memory holes' and 'thought police', and scrutinizes recent developments in UK and worldwide immigration policy. Cohen's penetrating analysis finds the system of immigration controls to be inherently racist, unjust and irrational: an intractable nightmare for immigrants, migrants and refugees."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: The irrationality of immigration controls; title: Introduction: Orwell, Nineteen eighty four and immigration controls, an overview; title: Interactive racism (how immigration controls operate as a gameshow); title: Newspeak, new labour, old racism (how immigration controls corrupt language); title: From newspeak to Amptssprache (how racism is sanitised by bureaucratic jargon); title: From Amptssprache to doublethink (how bureaucratic jargon enforces reality control); title: From doublethink to the programme that dare not speak its name (how ideological opposition to immigration control is itself controlled); title: Proles and poor laws (how the undocumented are outside the welfare system); title: We are all immigration officers now (how big brother is everywhere); title: Through the memory hole (how history is rewritten and the deportees forgotten); title: From international exploitation to international resistance (how the undocumented fight back globally); title: Conclusion: The planet without a visa.