Open Borders
The Case Against Immigration Controls

Sheds new light on the issue of asylum and immigration and opposes immigration controls in their totality.

To illustrate her arguments, she draws on empirical material, especially from Britain in the 1980s and 1990s, relating in particular to the use of detention, arbitrary decision-making and the denial of benefits. She compares British government policies with policies elsewhere in Europe and calls for the free movement of people and the abolition of border controls. The new edition brings this seminal work up to date with a lengthy preface exploring how the practices of the British government over the past few years has continued the process Hayter outlines in the main text -- of abusive and irrational border controls and the criminalisation of entire communities. This second edition also updates the bibliography and list of campaigning groups, and ends with a new manifesto for a world without borders, declaring 'no one is illegal!'

Preface to Second Edition
Introduction
1. Migration, And Migratory Myths
2. Border Controls
3. Refugees: Tightening The Screw
4. Resistance
5. Open The Borders
Appendix
Bibliography
Index