Bordering Britain
Bordering Britain (B)ordering Britain argues that Britain is the spoils of empire, its immigration law is colonial violence and irregular immigration is anti-colonial resistance. This imperial…
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Bordering Britain
(B)ordering Britain argues that Britain is the spoils of empire, its immigration law is colonial violence and irregular immigration is anti-colonial resistance. This imperial vanishing act cast Britain's colonial history into the shadows. 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.
Meanwhile immigration laws are justified on the basis that they keep the undeserving hordes out. The British Empire, about which Britons know little, can be remembered fondly as a moment of past glory, as a gift once given to the world. In fact, immigration laws are acts of colonial seizure and violence.
They obstruct the vast majority of racialised people from accessing colonial wealth amassed in the course of
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