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

Author/creator Cohen, Steve, 1945-
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2006.
Description224 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Orwell, George, 1903-1950. Nineteen eighty-four.
Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
Emigration and immigration--Government policy. --Great Britain.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 201-217) and index.
LCCN 2005015767
ISBN1843102943 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9781843102946 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks JV6038 .C64 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold