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1 online resource (251 p.) |
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Routledge Revivals Series |
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Routledge Revivals Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Series Editor's Preface -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Six frontiers of a British identity -- The Celtic fringe -- Class and gender dimensions -- The Dominions -- Empire and Commonwealth -- The Atlantic and anglophone connection -- Britain in Europe -- The construction of 'the Alien' -- Conclusion -- 2 Expulsions and deportations: The practice of anthropemy -- Early nationalism and Protestantism |
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From revolutionaries to the 'Alien Menace' -- Wartime expulsions and the aftermath -- Deportations after the Second World War -- Deportations arising from Empire -- The Conservative Party and deportations -- Voluntary repatriation -- Conclusion -- 3 Asylum: The shrinking circle of generosity -- Granting asylum: general reasons -- Refugee history -- Refugees after 1945 -- Quota refugees: The Chileans and Vietnamese -- Repatriates and 'Loyalists' -- From refugee to 'Economic Migrant' -- Visas, the Carriers Liability Act and 58 Tamils -- Agents and agencies |
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Mr Major, 'Safe Havens' and the 1993 Asylum Act -- Conclusion -- 4 The detention of aliens and asylum-seekers -- Wartime detentions -- Detention under the Prevention of Terrorism Act -- Immigration detentions -- Comparative legal regimes -- Immigration Act detainees: on-entry -- Immigration Act detainees: after-entry -- Detention conditions and privatisation -- The detainees -- Immigration control and social control -- Conclusion -- 5 Sanctuary and the anti-deportation movement -- On sanctuary -- The revival of sanctuary in Britain -- 'People like me don't win': the case of Viraj Mendis |
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Other sanctuaries and the anti-deportation movement -- Conclusion and critique -- 6 Inclusion and exclusion: Britain in the European context -- 'More hands, more hands' -- The end of the migrant labour boom -- Migration flows since the mid-1970s -- Germany: refugees and foreign workers -- Germany: attitudes and recent policies -- France: refugee history -- France: attitudes and recent policies -- Towards Fortress Europe -- Schengen and Dublin -- The Emerging European trichotomy -- Conclusion -- 7 Theoretical implications and conclusion -- What do we mean by racism? -- Otherness and difference |
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Boundary formation -- Nationalism -- The construction of social identities -- The stranger: a personal note -- Observations: institutions and individuals -- Symptoms, recommendations ... and a bit of evangelism -- References -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Originally published in 1994, this original analysis shows how the British as a people are constantly defined and redefined through their interactions with several 'frontiers of identity', namely Celts, expatriates, Americans, Europeans, citizens of the Commonwealth and more crucially with 'aliens' |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781003859376 |
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1003859372 |
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