Deportation is Freedom!
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Deportation is Freedom!

The Orwellian World of Immigration Controls

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Deportation is Freedom!

The Orwellian World of Immigration Controls

About this book

This book is a searing critique of today's immigration systems. Former barrister Steve Cohen declares that these systems are deeply flawed, and takes a fresh look at the ethical and political problems that surround this controversial subject.

Cohen proposes that current immigration controls are so inherently racist and irrational that they require the creative dystopian ideas contained within George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four to adequately describe them. He seeks to understand the irrationality of these controls - complete with their own brand of newspeak, doublethink, memory holes and thought police - and undertakes an incisive critique of immigration controls, revealing the nightmare world in which refugees, migrants and immigrants find themselves. The book also scrutinizes the latest developments in UK immigration legislation and compares and contrasts the UK experience with that of other countries.

Deportation is Freedom! is 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, lawyers, social policy makers and all people politically engaged in immigration campaigning.

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Table of contents

  1. COVER
  2. DEPORTATION IS FREEDOM!: THE ORWELLIAN WORLD OF IMMIGRATION CONTROLS
  3. CONTENTS
  4. PREFACE: THE IRRATIONALITY OF IMMIGRATION CONTROLS
  5. 1. Orwell, Ninereen Eighty-Four and Immigration Controls: An Overview of Language and Politics
  6. 2. Interactive Racism: How Immigration Controls Operate as a Gameshow
  7. 3. Newspeak, New Labour and Old Racism: How Immigration Controls Corrupt Language
  8. 4. From Newspeak to Amtssprache: How Racism is Sanitized by Bereaucratic Jargon
  9. 5. From Amtssprache to Doublethink: How Bureaucratic Jargon Enforces Reality Control
  10. 6. From Doublethink to the Programme that Dare Not Speak Its Name: How Ideological Opposition to Immigration Controls is itself Controlled and Silenced
  11. 7. Proles and Poor Laws: How the Undocumented are Outside the Welfare System
  12. 8. We Are All Immigration Officers Now: How Big Brother is Everywhere
  13. 9. Through the Memory Hole: How History is Rewritten and the Deportees Forgotten
  14. 10. From International Exploitation to International Resistance: How the Undocumented Fight Back Globally
  15. 11. The Planet Without a Visa
  16. APPENDIX 1: A VOICE FROM THE ALIENS
  17. APPENDIX 2: NO ONE IS ILLEGAL!
  18. NOTES
  19. INDEX