The Politics of Immigration and Asylum
| Author | Paul Rich |
| Published date | 01 May 2003 |
| Date | 01 May 2003 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/1467-856X.00107 |
| Subject Matter | Review Article |
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The politics of immigration and asylum
PAUL RICH
Books reviewed
Cohen, Steve, Humphries, Beth and Mynott, Ed (2002) From Immigration
Controls to Welfare Controls. London and New York: Routledge, xii +
234 pp. ISBN 0-415-25082-X (cloth) 0-415-25083-8 (pb).
Hayter, Teresa (2000) Open Borders: The Case Against Immigration
Controls. London: Pluto Press, viii +180 pp. ISBN 0-7453 1547 X
(cloth) 0 7453 1542 9 (pb).
Meilander, Peter C. (2001) Toward a Theory of Immigration. Houndmills:
Palgrave, x +254 pp. ISBN 0-312-24034-1
In recent years debate among both political scientists and philosophers
over the morality of immigration controls has intensified, especially in the
light of growing numbers of refugees and ‘asylum seekers’ seeking entry
into developed states. A good part of this discussion has been significantly
pivoted around liberal political concepts of justice and equity, which have
been given an added impetus in the post-cold war era with the general
decline in Marxism. These three books only partially reflect this new
debate since, in Britain at least, there remains a lingering attachment to
older Marxist analyses of race and immigration which have, since the late
1960s, securely embedded themselves within the ‘race industry’.
British Journal of Politics and International Relations,
Vol. 5, No. 2, May 2003, pp. 284–293
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