Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Migration, and migratory myths -- World migration -- Postwar migration to industrialised countries -- Migration to Britain -- TABLES 1.1 Foreign population as a percentage of total resident population in European countries, 1997 -- Table 1.2 Immigration from the new Commonwealth -- Table 1.3 Net migration to/ from Britain, 1871 1991 -- 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 -- Table 3.1 Asylum applications in Britain in the 1990s -- 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 -- Bibliography -- List of organisations and campaigns -- Index -- Abbott, Diane MP -- 85 -- 111 -- Ad Hoc Group on Immigration [1986] -- 59 -- 95 -- Ageeb, Aamir Mohammed 101 -- agents -- 61-2 -- 83-4 -- 95 -- 99-100 -- airport liaison officers [ALOs] -- 62 -- 75 -- 85 -- 98 -- Alder, Chritopher 36 -- Aldington detention centre 122 -- Algeria [effect of pro-Western policies] 5 -- Aliens Act [1793] 37 -- Aliens Act [1905] -- 39 -- 69 -- Aliens Order [1920] 40 -- Aliens Restriction Acts [1914 and 1919] 40 -- Allen, Tim 130 -- Amin, Idi 55 -- Amin, Samir 3 -- Amnesty International -- 61 -- 76 -- 78 -- 92 -- 93 -- 116 -- 136 -- Amsterdam Treaty [1998] -- 61 -- 62 -- Angola [and Western intervention] -- 6 -- 171.

anti-Irish prejudice 25 -- Anti-Nazi League -- 22 -- 136-7 -- assimability/non-assimability/inferior 'stock' -- 4 -- 21 -- 23 -- 24 -- 41 -- Association of Visitors to Immigration Detainees [AVID] -- 136 -- 177 -- Asylum Aid -- 91-3 -- 95 -- 98 -- 136 -- 177 -- Asylum and Immigration Act [1996] -- 76 -- 106 -- Asylum and Immigration Appeals Act [1993] -- 76 -- 89 -- Asylum Division [Home Office] 89 -- Asylum Rights Campaign [ARC] -- 136 -- 137 -- Asylum Welcome -- 74 -- 96 -- 108 -- 136 -- 177 -- Autonom Centrum [Amsterdam] 115 -- bail -- 89 -- 120-1 -- Bail for Immigration Detainees [BID] -- 136 -- 177 -- Baker, Kenneth MP 60 -- Bankole, Kola 101 -- Barry, Chris 131 -- Beackon, Derek 23 -- Bean, Paul 131 -- begging -- 80 -- 101 -- 165 -- Benn, Tony MP 78 -- Bethnall Green and Stepney Trades Council 29 -- Big Issue 109 -- Birmingham Immigration Control Association -- 22 -- 44 -- Bitirim, Zia Mustafa 36 -- Black Panthers 135 -- Blair, Tony MP -- 41 -- 56 -- 79 -- 139 -- Blakenhurst prison -- vii -- 127 -- Blaxland, Henry -- 129 -- 130 -- 132 -- bogus marriages -- 83 -- 85 -- bond scheme for visitors -- 57 -- 84 -- 98 -- Borjas, George B. 158 -- Bottomley, Arthur MP 45 -- Boyle, Sir Edward MP -- 43 -- 44 -- Brick Lane 22 -- Bright, David -- 130 -- 131-2 -- British Brothers League 22 -- British Movement -- 22 -- 23 -- British National Party -- 22 -- 23 -- British Nationality Act [1948] 43 -- British Nationality Act [1981] 56 -- British Nationality [Hong Kong] Act [ 57 -- British Union of Fascists 22 -- Brockway, Fenner MP 34-5 -- Brooke, Henry MP 49 -- Brown, Lord Justice Simon -- 99 -- 106-7 -- 112 -- Bruce-Lockhart, Sandy 33 -- Bullingdon prison -- vii -- 127 -- 129 -- Burns Ltd 121 -- Butler, Lord -- 44 -- 47 -- CAGE 142 -- Callaghan, James MP -- 41 -- 42 -- 53 -- Cambridgeshire Against Refugee Detentions [CARD] -- 139 -- 177.

Campaign Against Racial Discrimination [CARD] 135 -- Campaign Against Racism and Fascism [CARF] -- 137 -- 177 -- Campaign Against the Arms Trade [CAAT] -- 171 -- 177 -- Campaign for Asylum and Immigration Rights [CAIR] 137 -- Campaign to Close Campsfield -- vii -- 137-9 -- 142 -- 145 -- 178 -- Campaign to Close Harmondsworth -- 139 -- 178 -- Campsfield Nine trial/defence campaign -- 128-33 -- 134 -- Camspfield immigration detention center -- conditions in 124-5 -- escapes 126-7 -- hunger strikes 127 -- hunger strikes 133 -- hunger strikes 134 -- protests 127-8 -- Ramsbotham report on 119-20 -- Ramsbotham report on 121 -- Ramsbotham report on 125 -- removal to other prisons 125-6 -- Tumim report on 125 -- Tumim report on 128 -- vii, 101 -- vii, 123-33 -- carriers' liability/Carriers' Liability Act [1987] -- 75 -- 76 -- 84-5 -- 98 -- Casebourne, Gill 82 -- Castle, Barbara MP 46 -- Castle-Kanerova, Mita 83 -- Castles and Kosack -- 16 -- 141 -- Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations [CRER] 178 -- Children's Act [1989] -- 107 -- 110 -- Chilean refugees [and Western intervention] -- 6 -- 68 -- Chossudovsky, Michel 5 -- Churches Commission for Racial Justice -- 109 -- 136 -- 178 -- Churchill, Sir Winston MP 27 -- Chévènement -- 145 -- 169 -- Cissé, Madgiguène -- 113-14 -- 142-3 -- 170 -- Clynes, John MP 41 -- Cohen, Robin -- viii -- 13 -- 23-4 -- 39 -- Cohen, Steve -- viii -- 22 -- 26 -- Collectif Anti-Expulsions de Lille 146 -- Collins, Justice 107 -- Column 88 22 -- Comic Relief 108 -- Commission for Racial Equality -- 51 -- 136 -- 178 -- Commission Immigration du Réseau No Pasaran 147 -- Commonwealth -- 4 -- 6 -- British citizenship and 43 -- British citizenship and 44 -- British citizenship and 54 -- British power and 43-4 -- spontaneous migration from 16-19 -- Commonwealth Immigrants Act [1962] -- 18 -- 43 -- 45-8.

Commonwealth Immigrants Act [1968] -- 53 -- 55 -- Community Relations Councils [CRCs] 136 -- Confederation of British Industry 141 -- Cook, Robin MP 60 -- Corbyn, Jeremy MP 78 -- crime -- blamed on immigrants/refugees 25-6 -- blamed on immigrants/refugees 29-31 -- blamed on immigrants/refugees 38 -- blamed on immigrants/refugees 84 -- not the result of immigration 31 -- not the result of immigration 31 -- not the result of immigration 48 -- not the result of immigration 48 -- result of controls 7 -- result of controls 101 -- result of controls 164-5 -- criminalisation [of migrants and refugees] -- 62 -- 75 -- 84 -- 95-105 -- criminalisation and racism 96 -- deaths/hardship resulting from 103-4 -- Crossman, Richard MP 50 -- Crossroads Women's Centre -- 94 -- 142 -- 143 -- 178 -- Cutteslowe wall 151 -- Daily Mail -- 24 -- 30 -- 81 -- 102 -- Daily Telegraph 33 -- de Jong, Dennis 63 -- Deakin, Nicholas -- 29 -- 32 -- 49 -- debt, foreign -- 5 -- 170-1 -- democracy, liberal -- 149-50 -- 152 -- demonstrations/protests -- 23 -- 127-8 -- 134 -- 137 -- 137-8 -- in France 142-8 -- in Italy, Denmark, Belgium, Germany 139 -- den Hollander, Rens 115 -- denial of benefits 106-11 -- denial of permission to work 105-6 -- deportation -- 40 -- 73-4 -- 76 -- 81 -- 101 -- 152 -- destitution -- 105-12 -- 149 -- detention/reception centres/prisons -- 112-3 -- arbitrary decisions on 119-20 -- costs of 123 -- costs of 123 -- costs of 162-3 -- costs of 162-3 -- detention centres in France 113-14 -- escapes from 122 -- escapes from 123 -- escapes from 126-7 -- hunger strikes 127 -- hunger strikes 133 -- hunger strikes 134 -- in Britain 116-23 -- in Germany 114-15 -- in Switzerland, Sweden and Netherlands 115 -- Labour plans to increase 122-3 -- lack of time limit 117 -- legal processes 116-17 -- numbers detained 118 -- numbers detained 121.

numbers detained 122 -- protests 123 -- protests 127-8 -- reception centres in Europe 106 -- UNHCR attitude to 112 -- violation of international agreements 116 -- Die Karavane 148 -- Dietrich, Helmut -- 114-15 -- 151 -- Dilke, Sir Charles MP 39 -- Diop, Ababacar 145 -- dispersal -- 55 -- 111 -- 111 -- 165 -- 165 -- domestic servants -- 41 -- 64 -- Douglas, Brian 36 -- Douglas, Wayne 36 -- Dover Residents Against Racism -- 32 -- 178 -- Dublin Convention [1990] -- 59-60 -- 72-3 -- Dummett, Ann -- viii -- 52 -- Dummett, Professor Michael 139 -- Dunstan, Richard 116 -- Dyaye, Roland 150 -- East African Asians -- 52-3 -- 55 -- eastern Europe -- 24 -- 36-43 -- 62-3 -- 155 -- economic migration 64 -- El Gammai, Ahmed 36 -- emigration [from industrialised countries] -- 3 -- 9-10 -- 20 -- 55 -- employer sanctions -- 77 -- 85 -- 106 -- 135 -- Engels 68 -- entry clearance officers 51 -- Essery, Jane 130 -- European Council on Refugees and Exiles [ECRE] -- 73 -- 178 -- European Court of Human Rights, European Convention on Human Rights -- 57 -- 72 -- 107 -- 112 -- 116 -- European Economic Community -- 55 -- 57-60 -- European Union -- 2 -- 60-3 -- and free movement of people 57-61 -- and free movement of people 63 -- third country nationals restricted 58 -- European voluntary workers [EVRs] -- 16 -- 140 -- Europol 61 -- Evans-Gordon, Major William MP -- 22 -- 38 -- 39 -- Exceptional Leave to Remain -- 72 -- 76 -- 80 -- excluded from Commonwealth Immigrants Act 47 -- Expiring Laws Continuance Act 40 -- false/forged documents -- 47 -- 75 -- 84 -- 97-8 -- 99-100 -- imprisonment and detention for possession of 99 -- imprisonment and detention for possession of 99 -- imprisonment and detention for possession of 119 -- imprisonment and detention for possession of 119 -- family reunion -- 48-9 -- 51-2 -- 56 -- 57 -- fascists/far right -- 21-3 -- 150.

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