Deportation is Freedom!

Deportation is Freedom!

The Orwellian World of Immigration Controls

Steve Cohen

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2005, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 224pp
ISBN: 978-1-84310-294-6, BIC 2: JFFN JFF JFFD

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Preface: The Irrationality of Immigration Controls. 1. Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Immigration Controls: an Overview of Language and Politics. 2.Interactive Racism: How Immigration Controls Operate as a Gameshow. 3. Newspeak, New Labour and Old Racism: How Immigration Controls Corrupt Language. 4. From Newspeak to Amtssprache: How Racism is Sanitized by Bureaucratic Jargon). 5. From Amtssprache to Doublethink: How Bureaucratic Jargon Enforces Reality Control. 6. From Doublethink to the Programme that Dare Not Speak its Name: How Ideological Opposition to Immigration Control is Itself Controlled and Silenced. 7. Proles and Poor Laws: How the Undocumented are Outside the Welfare System. 8. We're All Immigration Officers Now: How Big Brother is Everywhere. 9. Through the Memory Hole: How History is Rewritten and the Deportees Forgotten). 10. From International Exploitation to International Resistance: How the Undocumented Fight Back Globally. 11. The Planet Without a Visa. Appendix 1. A Voice from the Aliens. Appendix 2. The Manifesto of the No-One is Illegal group. Endnotes. References. Index.

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