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

Author/creator Cohen, Steve, 1945-
Format Electronic
Edition1st American pbk. ed.
Publication InfoLondon ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers,
Description224 p. ; 24 cm.
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Contents Preface: The irrationality of immigration controls -- Introduction: Orwell, Nineteen eighty four and immigration controls, an overview -- 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 control is itself controlled) -- 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) -- Conclusion: The planet without a visa.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2005015767
ISBN9781843102946 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN1843102943 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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