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.
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