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Deportation is freedom! : the Orwellian world of immigration controls /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cohen, Steve, 1945-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2006.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Orwell, Nineteen eighty four and immigration controls : an overview of language and politics
  • Interactive racism : how immigration controls operate as a gameshow
  • Newspeak, new labour, old racism : how immigration controls corrupt language
  • From newspeak to Amptssprache : how racism is sanitised by bureaucratic jargon
  • From Amptssprache to doublethink : how bureaucratic jargon enforces reality control
  • From doublethink to the programme that dare not speak its name : how ideological opposition to immigration controls is itself controlled and silenced
  • Proles and poor laws : how the undocumented are outside the welfare system
  • We are all immigration officers now : how big brother is everywhere
  • Through the memory hole : how history is rewritten and the deportees forgotten
  • From international exploitation to international resistance : how the undocumented fight back globally
  • The planet without a visa.