Deportation is Freedom!

Steve Cohen was an immigration lawyer for over 25 years and was Director of the Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit. He studied law at Oxford and Birmingham and practised as a barrister. The author of Immigration Controls, the Family and the Welfare State, also published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, and many academic, professional and political articles, he was actively involved in campaigns against immigration controls.

Cohen's book is a polemic - a forthright attack on oppressive structures. It is visionary in its persistent grasp on the world without borders. It is a manifesto and a manual for those seeking strategies to overturn an inhumane and deadly absurdity.

• Preface: The Irrationality of Immigration Controls. 1. Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Immigration Controls: an Overview of Language and Politics. 2.Interactive Racism: How Immigration Controls Operate as a Gameshow. 3. Newspeak, New Labour and Old Racism: How Immigration Controls Corrupt Language. 4. From Newspeak to Amtssprache: How Racism is Sanitized by Bureaucratic Jargon). 5. From Amtssprache to Doublethink: How Bureaucratic Jargon Enforces Reality Control. 6. From Doublethink to the Programme that Dare Not Speak its Name: How Ideological Opposition to Immigration Control is Itself Controlled and Silenced. 7. Proles and Poor Laws: How the Undocumented are Outside the Welfare System. 8. We're All Immigration Officers Now: How Big Brother is Everywhere. 9. Through the Memory Hole: How History is Rewritten and the Deportees Forgotten). 10. From International Exploitation to International Resistance: How the Undocumented Fight Back Globally. 11. The Planet Without a Visa. Appendix 1. A Voice from the Aliens. Appendix 2. The Manifesto of the No-One is Illegal group. Endnotes. References. Index.