No Borders

The Case against Immigration Controls

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3946293
AutoresTeresa Hayter (autor correspondente)
Ano2003
Volume73
Fascículo1
Páginas6-18
Data de publicação2003-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoFeminist Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400071
OpenAlexW2003897105
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas7

This article presents the case against immigration controls. Nation states, which are giving up controls on the movement of goods and capital, nevertheless still try to control the movement of people. Like controls under apartheid, immigration controls will eventually become untenable. They are also a relatively recent phenomenon. The actions of the governments of the rich countries, their international agencies and corporations increase both the opportunities and the need for migration. Together with arms sales and support for right-wing repressive regimes, they bear much responsibility for the wars and persecution from which people are forced to flee. The strongest reason for abolishing immigration controls is the increasingly harsh suffering they impose on refugees and migrants, largely to deter others. In the process, they undermine many human rights, including potentially those of existing residents

Capital (architecture) · Development economics · Economics · Geography · Human rights · Immigration · Immigration policy · Persecution · Phenomenon · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Sociology · Law · Legal Issues in South Africa