Bordering Britain: Law, Race and Empire

by Nadine El-Enany

Book Overview

(B)ordering Britain argues that Britain is the spoils of empire, its immigration law is colonial violence and irregular immigration is anti-colonial resistance. In announcing itself as postcolonial through immigration and nationality laws passed in the 60s, 70s and 80s, Britain cut itself off symbolically and physically from its colonies and the Commonwealth, taking with it what it had plundered. This imperial vanishing act cast Britain's colonial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526155796
• ISBN13: 9781526155795
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"